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

Anagrams

• Proud, pour'd, proud

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Latin

Etymology

From pudet (“it shames”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) 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.
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.

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Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pudor, pudōrem.

Noun

pudor m (plural pudores)

1. pudor (appropriate sense of modesty or shame)

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Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pudor, pudōrem.

Noun

pudor m (plural pudores)

1. shame
2. modesty

Synonyms

• (shame): vergüenza