honestus
Latin
Etymology
From honor, honos (“honor or honour, esteem”) + -tus.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /hoˈnes.tus/, [hɔˈnɛs̠t̪ʊs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /oˈnes.tus/, [oˈnɛst̪us]
Adjective
honestus (feminine honesta, neuter honestum, comparative honestior, superlative honestissimus); first/second-declension adjective
- Full of or regarded with honor/honour; honorable/honourable, of high birth, noble, distinguished, respectable, eminent.
- Bringing or deserving honor or honour; worthy, creditable, respectable; decent, virtuous.
- (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
- (honorable or honourable): inhonestus
Derived terms
- honestās
- honestē
- honestitūdō
- honestō
- honestum
- inhonestus
Related terms
- honestāmentum
- honor
- honōrābilis
- honōrārium
- honōrārius
- honōrātē
- honōrātiō
- honōrātus
- honōrificē
- honōrificentia
- honōrificō
- honōrificus
- honōriger
- honōripeta
- honōrō
- honōrus
Descendants
- Catalan: honest
- English: honest
- French: honnête
- Italian: onesto
- Norman: honnête (Jersey)
- Piedmontese: onest
- Old 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, 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
- (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