pudor

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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)

  1. 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.

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Catalan

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin pudōrem.

Pronunciation

Noun

pudor m (plural pudors)

  1. shame
    Synonym: vergonya
  2. modesty

Etymology 2

From Latin pūtōrem. First attested in the 14th century.

Pronunciation

Noun

pudor f (plural pudors)

  1. 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

  1. 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).)
  2. Modesty, decency, propriety, scrupulousness, chastity.
  3. A blush.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative pudor pudōrēs
Genitive pudōris pudōrum
Dative pudōrī pudōribus
Accusative pudōrem pudōrēs
Ablative pudōre pudōribus
Vocative pudor pudōrēs

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Descendants

  • Catalan: pudor
  • English: pudor
  • French: pudeur
  • Italian: pudore
  • Portuguese: pudor
  • Romanian: pudoare
  • Spanish: pudor

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)

  1. 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)

  1. shame
    Synonym: vergüenza
  2. modesty
    Synonym: modestia
Related terms

Etymology 2

Inherited from Latin pūtōrem.

Noun

pudor m (plural pudores)

  1. stench, malodor, fetidness (bad smell)
    Synonym: hedor, hediondez
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