pudicitia

English

Etymology

From Latin pudīcitia.

Noun

pudicitia (uncountable)

1. (historical) The Ancient Roman concept of sexual virtue, involving modesty and loyalty to one's partner.

Latin

Etymology

From pudīcus (“chaste; modest, shamefaced”) +‎ -itia, from pudet (“it shames”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [pʊ.diːˈkɪ.ti.a]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [pu.diˈt͡ʃit.t͡si.a]

Noun

pudīcitia f (genitive pudīcitiae); first declension

1. chastity, virtue; shamefacedness, modesty

   Synonym: castitās

   Antonym: impudīcitia

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	pudīcitia	pudīcitiae
genitive	pudīcitiae	pudīcitiārum
dative	pudīcitiae	pudīcitiīs
accusative	pudīcitiam	pudīcitiās
ablative	pudīcitiā	pudīcitiīs
vocative	pudīcitia	pudīcitiae

Related terms

• pudēfactus
• pudendus
• pudēns
• pudenter
• pudet
• pudibilis
• pudibundus
• pudīcē
• pudīcus
• pudor
• pudōrātus
• pudōricolor
• pudōrōsus

Descendants

• → English: pudicity
• → Italian: pudicizia
• → Portuguese: pudicícia

References

• “pudicitia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “pudicitia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “pudicitia”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “pudicitia”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “pudicitia”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray