honestus
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Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From honor, honos (“honor or honour, esteem”) + -tus.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /hoˈnes.tus/, [hɔˈnɛs̠t̪ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /oˈnes.tus/, [oˈnɛst̪us]
Adjective
[edit]honestus (feminine honesta, neuter honestum, comparative honestior, superlative honestissimus); first/second-declension adjective
- Full of or regarded with honor/honour; honorable/honourable, of high birth, noble, distinguished, respectable, eminent.
- Bringing or deserving honor or honour; worthy, creditable, respectable; decent, virtuous.
- (of one's appearance) Fine, handsome, beautiful, becoming, noble.
Declension
[edit]First/second-declension adjective.
| singular | plural | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | feminine | neuter | masculine | feminine | neuter | ||
| nominative | honestus | honesta | honestum | honestī | honestae | honesta | |
| genitive | honestī | honestae | honestī | honestōrum | honestārum | honestōrum | |
| dative | honestō | honestae | honestō | honestīs | |||
| accusative | honestum | honestam | honestum | honestōs | honestās | honesta | |
| ablative | honestō | honestā | honestō | honestīs | |||
| vocative | honeste | honesta | honestum | honestī | honestae | honesta | |
Antonyms
[edit]- (antonym(s) of “honorable or honourable”): inhonestus
Derived terms
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[edit]References
[edit]- “honestus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “honestus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- honestus 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)
- honestus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- (ambiguous) to live (all) one's life (honourably, in the country, as a man of learning): vitam, aetatem (omnem aetatem, omne aetatis tempus) agere (honeste, ruri, in litteris), degere, traducere
- (ambiguous) to live (all) one's life (honourably, in the country, as a man of learning): vitam, aetatem (omnem aetatem, omne aetatis tempus) agere (honeste, ruri, in litteris), degere, traducere