pudor

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pudor (“sense of modesty or shame”), from pudet (“it shames”), as is pudency (via pudentia).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpjuːdɔː/, /ˈpjuːdər/

Noun

pudor (uncountable)

1. An appropriate sense of modesty or shame.
   • 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses:

     Woman, undoing with sweet pudor her belt of rushrope, offers her allmoist yoni to man’s lingam.

Translations

appropriate sense of modesty or shame

• Catalan: pudor (ca) m
• Dutch: pudeur (nl)
• Esperanto: hontemo
• French: pudeur (fr)
• Greek: αιδώς (el) f (aidós)
• Hungarian: szemérmesség (hu)
• Latin: pudor m
• Portuguese: pudor (pt) m
• Spanish: pudor (es) m

Anagrams

• Proud, pour'd, proud

Catalan

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin pudōrem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencian) [puˈðor]

Noun

pudor m (plural pudors)

1. shame

   Synonym: vergonya

2. modesty

Etymology 2

From Latin pūtōrem. First attested in the 14th century.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [puˈðo]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [puˈðoɾ]

Noun

pudor f (plural pudors)

1. stench, malodor

Further reading

• “pudor” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Latin

Etymology

From pudet (“it shames”) +‎ -or.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpu.dor/, [ˈpʊd̪ɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpu.dor/, [ˈpuːd̪or]

Noun

pudor m (genitive pudōris); third declension

1. A sense of shame; shamefacedness, shyness; ignominy, disgrace; humiliation.

   Synonym: verēcundia

   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 5.593–594:

     Parthe, refers aquilās, vīctōs quoque porrigis arcūs:
     pignora iam nostrī nūlla pudōris habēs.

     Parthian, you are returning the eagles, you are extending the vanquished bows as well: Now you have no tokens of our shame.
     (See: Phraates V; Aquila (Roman).)

2. Modesty, decency, propriety, scrupulousness, chastity.
3. A blush.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	pudor	pudōrēs
Genitive	pudōris	pudōrum
Dative	pudōrī	pudōribus
Accusative	pudōrem	pudōrēs
Ablative	pudōre	pudōribus
Vocative	pudor	pudōrēs

Derived terms

Derived terms

• impudens
• impudenter
• impudentia
• impudicitia
• pudendum
• pudendus
• pudens
  • pudenter
• pudibundus
• pudicitia
• pudōrātus
• pudōricolor
• pudōrōsus

Related terms

• pudēfactus
• pudēns
• pudenter
• pudescit
• pudet
• pudibilis
• pudibundus
• pudīcē
• pudīcitia
• pudīcus

Descendants

• Catalan: pudor
• English: pudor
• French: pudeur
• Italian: pudore
• Portuguese: pudor
• Romanian: pudoare
• Spanish: pudor

References

• “pudor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “pudor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• pudor in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• pudor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Portuguese

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin pudōrem.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /puˈdoʁ/ [puˈdoh]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /puˈdoʁ/ [puˈdoh]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /puˈdoɾ/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /puˈdoʁ/ [puˈdoχ]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /puˈdoɻ/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /puˈdoɾ/ [puˈðoɾ]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /puˈdoɾ/ [puˈðoɾ]
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /puˈdo.ɾi/ [puˈðo.ɾi]

• Rhymes: (Portugal, São Paulo) -oɾ, (Brazil) -oʁ
• Hyphenation: pu‧dor

Noun

pudor m (plural pudores)

1. pudor (appropriate sense of modesty or shame)

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /puˈdoɾ/ [puˈð̞oɾ]
• Rhymes: -oɾ
• Syllabification: pu‧dor

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin pudōrem.

Noun

pudor m (plural pudores)

1. shame

   Synonym: vergüenza

2. modesty

   Synonym: modestia

Related terms

• pudoroso

 

Etymology 2

Inherited from Latin pūtōrem.

Noun

pudor m (plural pudores)

1. stench, malodor, fetidness (bad smell)

   Synonym: hedor, hediondez

Related terms

• pudir

 

Further reading

• “pudor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014