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Latin
Adjective
honestum
- accusative/nominative/accusative neuter singular of honestus
Noun
honestum n (genitive honestī); second declension
- honesty.
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter), singular only.
References
- “honestum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- honestum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, 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) a virtuous (immoral) life: vita honesta (turpis)
- (ambiguous) to follow virtue; to flee from vice: honesta expetere; turpia fugere
- (ambiguous) of illustrious family: nobili, honesto, illustri loco or genere natus