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honestus
honestus
Latin
Adjective
honestus m (feminine honesta, neuter honestum); first/second declension
- Full of or regarded with honor or honour; honorable or 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.
Inflection
First/second declension.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
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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 |
- comparative: honestior, superlative: honestissimus
Antonyms
- (honorable or honourable): inhonestus
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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, 1883–1887)
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “honestus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
- Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
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(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
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(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