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honestas

Latin

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Etymology

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From either honestus (“honored, having or deserving honor”) or honor (“honour”) +‎ -(i)tās; in the former case, this would be a haplological form of *honestitās.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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honestās f (genitive honestātis); third declension

  1. respectability
  2. honor, honour, honorableness
  3. (by extension) (honorable) character, integrity, probity, virtue
  4. wealth

Declension

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Third-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative honestās honestātēs
Genitive honestātis honestātum
Dative honestātī honestātibus
Accusative honestātem honestātēs
Ablative honestāte honestātibus
Vocative honestās honestātēs

Descendants

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(Many descendants had the ending of the medieval inherited word analogized following the descendant of -itās.)

Verb

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honestās

  1. second-person singular present active indicative of honestō

References

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  • “honestas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “honestas”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • honestas 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)
  • honestas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to deviate from the path of virtue: honestatem deserere

Portuguese

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Adjective

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honestas f pl

  1. feminine plural of honesto

Spanish

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /oˈnestas/ [oˈnes.t̪as]
  • Rhymes: -estas
  • Syllabification: ho‧nes‧tas

Adjective

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honestas f pl

  1. feminine plural of honesto

Verb

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honestas

  1. second-person singular present indicative of honestar
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