honestas

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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

  1. respectability
  2. honor, honour, honorableness
  3. (by extension) (honorable) character, integrity, probity, virtue
  4. wealth

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative honestās honestātēs
Genitive honestātis honestātum
Dative honestātī honestātibus
Accusative honestātem honestātēs
Ablative honestāte honestātibus
Vocative honestās honestātēs

Descendants

(Many descendants had the ending of the medieval inherited word analogized following the descendant of -itās.)

Verb

honestās

  1. 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

  1. feminine plural of honesto

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /oˈnestas/
  • Rhymes: -estas
  • Syllabification: ho‧nes‧tas

Adjective

honestas f pl

  1. feminine plural of honesto

Verb

honestas

  1. second-person singular present indicative of honestar
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