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Latin
Etymology
From either honestus (“honored, having or deserving honor”) or honor (“honour”) + -(i)tās; in the former case, this would be a haplological form of *honestitās.
Pronunciation
Noun
honestās f (genitive honestātis); third declension
- respectability
- honor, honour, honorableness
- (by extension) (honorable) character, integrity, probity, virtue
- wealth
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Descendants
(Many descendants had the ending of the medieval inherited word analogized following the descendant of -itās.)
Verb
honestās
- second-person singular present active indicative of honestō
References
- “honestas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “honestas”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- honestas 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)
- honestas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to deviate from the path of virtue: honestatem deserere
Portuguese
Adjective
honestas f pl
- feminine plural of honesto
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /oˈnestas/
- Rhymes: -estas
- Syllabification: ho‧nes‧tas
Adjective
honestas f pl
- feminine plural of honesto
Verb
honestas
- second-person singular present indicative of honestar