verecundia
See also: verecúndia
Latin
Etymology
From verēcundus (“feeling shame, shamefaced, bashful, shy, modest”) + -ia.
Pronunciation
(Classical) IPA(key): /u̯e.reːˈkun.di.a/, [u̯ɛreːˈkʊn̪d̪iä]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ve.reˈkun.di.a/, [vereˈkun̪d̪iä]
Noun
verēcundia f (genitive verēcundiae); first declension
- knowing one's place, regarded as a virtue; coyness, modesty
- shyness, bashfulness
- shame, awe
- Synonym: pudor
Declension
First-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | verēcundia | verēcundiae |
| Genitive | verēcundiae | verēcundiārum |
| Dative | verēcundiae | verēcundiīs |
| Accusative | verēcundiam | verēcundiās |
| Ablative | verēcundiā | verēcundiīs |
| Vocative | verēcundia | verēcundiae |
Descendants
- Aragonese: vergüenya
- Asturian: vergoña, vergüeña, vergüenza, virgüenza, vergonza
- Catalan: vergonya
- Corsican: vargogna
- Emilian: vergògna
- Fala: vergonza
- Franco-Provençal: vergogni
- → French: vérécondie
- Friulian: vergonze, vergonge
- Istriot: varguogna
- Italian: vergogna
- → Italian: verecondia
- Mirandese: bergonha, bargonha
- Occitan: vergonha
- Old French: vergogne, vergoigne
- Bourguignon: vargôgne
- French: vergogne
- Old Portuguese: vergonna, vergonça
- Galician: vergoña, vergonza
- Portuguese: vergonha
- Piedmontese: vërgògna
- → Portuguese: verecúndia
- Romansch: verguogna
- Sardinian: bergugna, bregúngia, birgonza, bregunza, brigunza, frigonza, vilgonza, bilgonza
- Sicilian: virigogna, virivogna, virgogna, virvogna, vrigogna, briogna
- Spanish: vergüenza
- → Spanish: verecundia
- Venetian: vargogna
References
- “verecundia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “verecundia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- verecundia 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)
- verecundia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911), “vĕrēcŭndia”, in Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), page 703