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, 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”.)
  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

Derived terms

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

Etymology 2

Inherited from Latin pūtōrem.

Noun

pudor m (plural pudores)

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

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