verecundia

Latin

Etymology

From verēcundus (“feeling shame, shamefaced, bashful, shy, modest”) +‎ -ia.

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /u̯e.reːˈkun.di.a/, [u̯ɛreːˈkʊn̪d̪iä]

• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ve.reˈkun.di.a/, [vereˈkun̪d̪iä]

Noun

verēcundia f (genitive verēcundiae); first declension

1. knowing one's place, regarded as a virtue; coyness, modesty
2. shame, awe

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	verēcundia	verēcundiae
Genitive	verēcundiae	verēcundiārum
Dative	verēcundiae	verēcundiīs
Accusative	verēcundiam	verēcundiās
Ablative	verēcundiā	verēcundiīs
Vocative	verēcundia	verēcundiae

Descendants

• Aragonese: vergüenya
• Asturian: vergoña, vergüeña, vergüenza, virgüenza, vergonza
• Catalan: vergonya
• Corsican: vargogna
• Emilian: vergògna
• Fala: vergonza
• → French: vérécondie
• Friulian: vergonze, vergonge
• Galician: vergoña
• Istriot: varguogna
• Italian: vergogna

• → Italian: verecondia
• Mirandese: bergonha, bargonha
• Occitan: vergonha
• Old French: vergogne, vergoigne
  • Bourguignon: vargôgne
  • French: vergogne
• Old Galician-Portuguese: vergonna, vergonça
  • Portuguese: vergonha
• Piedmontese: vërgògna
• → Portuguese: verecúndia
• Sardinian: bergugna, bregúngia, birgonza, bregunza, brigunza, frigonza, vilgonza, bilgonza
• Sicilian: virigogna, virgognavrigogna, briogna
• Spanish: vergüenza
• → Spanish: verecundia
• Venetian: vargogna

References

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