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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin pudor (“sense of modesty or shame”), from pudet (“it shames”), as is pudency (via pudentia).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpjuːdɔː/, /ˈpjuːdər/
Noun
pudor (uncountable)
- An appropriate sense of modesty or shame.
1922, James Joyce, Ulysses:Woman, undoing with sweet pudor her belt of rushrope, offers her allmoist yoni to man’s lingam.
Translations
appropriate sense of modesty or shame
Anagrams
Catalan
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Latin pudōrem.
Pronunciation
Noun
pudor m (plural pudors)
- shame
- Synonym: vergonya
- modesty
Etymology 2
From Latin pūtōrem. First attested in the 14th century.
Pronunciation
Noun
pudor f (plural pudors)
- stench, malodor
Further reading
- “pudor” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Latin
Etymology
From pudet (“it shames”) + -or.
Pronunciation
Noun
pudor m (genitive pudōris); third declension
- A sense of shame; shamefacedness, shyness; ignominy, disgrace; humiliation
- Synonym: verēcundia
8 CE,
Ovid,
Fasti 5.593–594:
- Parthe, refers aquilās, vīctōs quoque porrigis arcūs:
pignora iam nostrī nūlla pudōris habēs.- Parthian, you are returning the eagles, you are extending the vanquished bows as well: Now you have no tokens of our shame.
(See: Phraates V; Aquila (Roman).)
- Modesty, decency, propriety, scrupulousness, shame, chastity; also, these qualities or behaviors personified as “Shame”, “Modesty”, etc.
29 BCE – 19 BCE,
Virgil,
Aeneid 4.24-27:
- “Sed mihi vel tellūs optem prius īmā dēhīscat,
vel Pater omnipotēns adigat mē fulmine ad umbrās,
pallentīs umbrās Erebī noctemque profundam,
ante, Pudor, quam tē violō, aut tua iūra resolvō.”- “But first I would pray — either that deepest earth gape open for me, or the Father almighty hurl me with his thunderbolt to the shades, the pallid shades and boundless night of Erebus — sooner than I violate you, Shame, or unbind your laws.”
(For an analysis of “Pudor” in this context, see: Gildenhard, I., , Virgil, Aeneid 4.1–299, Open Book Publishers, pp. 73-75. Translations vary – Mackail, 1885: “mine honour”; Mandelbaum, 1971: “Shame”; Fitzgerald, 1981: “O chaste life”; West, 1990: “my conscience”; Lombardo, 2005: “O Modesty”.)
- A blush
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “pudor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “pudor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- pudor 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)
- pudor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Portuguese
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin pudōrem.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: (Portugal, São Paulo) -oɾ, (Brazil) -oʁ
- Hyphenation: pu‧dor
Noun
pudor m (plural pudores)
- pudor (appropriate sense of modesty or shame)
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /puˈdoɾ/
- Rhymes: -oɾ
- Syllabification: pu‧dor
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Latin pudōrem.
Noun
pudor m (plural pudores)
- shame
- Synonym: vergüenza
- modesty
- Synonym: modestia
Etymology 2
Inherited from Latin pūtōrem.
Noun
pudor m (plural pudores)
- stench, malodor, fetidness (bad smell)
- Synonym: hedor, hediondez
Further reading