honestus

Latin

Etymology

From honor, honos (“honor or honour, esteem”) +‎ -tus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /hoˈnes.tus/, [hɔˈnɛs̠t̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /oˈnes.tus/, [oˈnɛst̪us]

Adjective

honestus (feminine honesta, neuter honestum, comparative honestior, superlative honestissimus); first/second-declension adjective

1. Full of or regarded with honor/honour; honorable/honourable, of high birth, noble, distinguished, respectable, eminent.
2. Bringing or deserving honor or honour; worthy, creditable, respectable; decent, virtuous.
3. (of one's appearance) Fine, handsome, beautiful, becoming, noble.

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	honestus	honesta	honestum		honestī	honestae	honesta
Genitive	honestī	honestae	honestī		honestōrum	honestārum	honestōrum
Dative	honestō		honestō		honestīs
Accusative	honestum	honestam	honestum		honestōs	honestās	honesta
Ablative	honestō	honestā	honestō		honestīs
Vocative	honeste	honesta	honestum		honestī	honestae	honesta

Antonyms

• (antonym(s) of "honorable or honourable"): inhonestus

Derived terms

• honestitūdō
• honestum
• honestās
• honestē
• honestō
• inhonestus

 

Related terms

• honestāmentum
• honor
• honōrificentia
• honōrificus
• honōrificē
• honōrificō
• honōriger
• honōripeta
• honōrus
• honōrābilis
• honōrārium
• honōrārius
• honōrātiō
• honōrātus
• honōrātē
• honōrō

 

Descendants

• Catalan: honest
• English: honest
• French: honnête
• Italian: onesto
• Norman: honnête (Jersey)
• Piedmontese: onest
• Old Galician-Portuguese: onesto
  • Galician: honesto
  • Portuguese: honesto
• Romanian: onest
• Sicilian: anestu
• Spanish: honesto

References

• “honestus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “honestus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• honestus 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)
• honestus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) to live (all) one's life (honourably, in the country, as a man of learning): vitam, aetatem (omnem aetatem, omne aetatis tempus) agere (honeste, ruri, in litteris), degere, traducere