pudeo

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *pudēō, from Proto-Indo-European *paw- (“to strike”).

Cognates

From Proto-Indo-European: Latin paveō, Latin paviō, Latin repudium, (possibly) Latin tripudium.

Compare typologically Proto-Slavic *stydъ (<< Proto-Indo-European *(s)tewd-).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈpʊ.de.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈpuː.de.o]

Verb

pudeō (present infinitive pudēre, perfect active puduī or puditus sum, supine puditum); second conjugation, optionally semi-deponent

1. (transitive, usually impersonal) to cause shame

   [with accusative ‘person who is ashamed’ and genitive ‘thing/person causing shame’]

   • mē pudet ― I am ashamed

   [used personally with a neuter pronoun as subject]

   • 160 BCE, Publius Terentius Afer, Adelphoe 754:

     Nōn tē haec pudent?

     Don’t these things shame you?

2. (intransitive, rare) to be ashamed
   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 6.573–574:

     dum dea fūrtīvōs timidē profitētur amōrēs,
     caelestemque hominī concubuisse pudet

     While the goddess timidly confesses her secret desires and – a divine being [with love] for a mortal! – she is ashamed to have slept with [him] [...].
     (The goddess: Fortuna; the mortal: Servius Tullius.)

Conjugation

   Conjugation of pudeō (second conjugation, optionally semi-deponent)

indicative		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	pudeō		pudēs		pudet		pudēmus		pudētis		pudent
	imperfect	pudēbam		pudēbās		pudēbat		pudēbāmus		pudēbātis		pudēbant
	future	pudēbō		pudēbis		pudēbit		pudēbimus		pudēbitis		pudēbunt
	perfect	puduī, puditus sum		puduistī, puditus es		puduit, puditus est		puduimus, puditī sumus		puduistis, puditī estis		puduērunt, puduēre, puditī sunt
	pluperfect	pudueram, puditus eram		puduerās, puditus erās		puduerat, puditus erat		puduerāmus, puditī erāmus		puduerātis, puditī erātis		puduerant, puditī erant
	future perfect	puduerō, puditus erō		pudueris, puditus eris		puduerit, puditus erit		puduerimus, puditī erimus		pudueritis, puditī eritis		puduerint, puditī erint
subjunctive		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	pudeam		pudeās		pudeat		pudeāmus		pudeātis		pudeant
	imperfect	pudērem		pudērēs		pudēret		pudērēmus		pudērētis		pudērent
	perfect	puduerim, puditus sim		puduerīs, puditus sīs		puduerit, puditus sit		puduerīmus, puditī sīmus		puduerītis, puditī sītis		puduerint, puditī sint
	pluperfect	puduissem, puditus essem		puduissēs, puditus essēs		puduisset, puditus esset		puduissēmus, puditī essēmus		puduissētis, puditī essētis		puduissent, puditī essent
imperative		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	—		pudē		—		—		pudēte		—
	future	—		pudētō		pudētō		—		pudētōte		pudentō
non-finite forms		infinitive						participle
		active			passive			active			passive
present		pudēre			—			pudēns			—
future		puditūrum esse			—			puditūrus			pudendus
perfect		puduisse, puditum esse			—			puditus			—
future perfect		puditum fore			—			—			—
perfect potential		puditūrum fuisse			—			—			—
verbal nouns		gerund								supine
		genitive		dative		accusative		ablative		accusative		ablative
		pudendī		pudendō		pudendum		pudendō		puditum		puditū

Derived terms

• dispudet
• propudianus
• propudiosus
• propudium
• pudefactus
• pudendum
• pudendus
• pudēns
• pudescit
• pudibilis
• pudibundus
• pudīcus
• pudimentum
• pudor
• suppudet

References

• “pudeo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “pudeo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “pudeo”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.