pudicitia

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Etymology

From Latin pudīcitia.

Noun

pudicitia (uncountable)

  1. (historical) The Ancient Roman concept of sexual virtue, involving modesty and loyalty to one's partner.

Latin

Etymology

From pudīcus (“chaste; modest, shamefaced”) +‎ -itia, from pudet (“it shames”).

Pronunciation

Noun

pudīcitia f (genitive pudīcitiae); first declension

  1. chastity, virtue; shamefacedness, modesty
    Synonym: castitās
    Antonym: impudīcitia

Declension

First-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative pudīcitia pudīcitiae
genitive pudīcitiae pudīcitiārum
dative pudīcitiae pudīcitiīs
accusative pudīcitiam pudīcitiās
ablative pudīcitiā pudīcitiīs
vocative pudīcitia pudīcitiae

Descendants

  • → English: pudicity
  • → Italian: pudicizia
  • → Portuguese: pudicícia

References

  • “pudicitia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “pudicitia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • pudicitia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “pudicitia”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “pudicitia”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
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