honestas

Latin

Etymology

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

(Classical) IPA^(key): /hoˈnes.taːs/, [hɔˈnɛs̠t̪äːs̠]

(Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /oˈnes.tas/, [oˈnɛst̪äs]

Noun

honestās f (genitive honestātis); third declension

respectability
honor, honour, honorableness
(by extension) (honorable) character, integrity, probity, virtue
wealth

Declension

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

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

Catalan: honestedat
Italian: onestà
Old French: honesté
- French: honnêteté
- → Middle English: honeste
  - English: honesty
  - Scots: honesty
Occitan: onestetat
Piedmontese: onestà
Portuguese: honestidade
Old Spanish: onestat, onestad
- Spanish: honestad, honestidad
Sicilian: unistà
Romanian: onestitate, onestate (obsolete)

Verb

honestās

second-person singular present active indicative of honestō

References

“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, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to deviate from the path of virtue: honestatem deserere

Portuguese

Adjective

honestas f pl

feminine plural of honesto

Spanish

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

honestas f pl

feminine plural of honesto

Verb

honestas

second-person singular present indicative of honestar