honestas

Latin

Etymology

For *honestitās, from honestus (“honored, having or deserving honor”)

Pronunciation
  • (Classical) IPA(key): /hoˈnes.taːs/, [hɔˈnɛs.taːs]

Noun

honestās f (genitive honestātis); third declension

  1. honour, integrity, honesty
  2. wealth

Declension

Third declension.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative honestās honestātēs
Genitive honestātis honestātum
Dative honestātī honestātibus
Accusative honestātem honestātēs
Ablative honestāte honestātibus
Vocative honestās honestātēs

Descendants

Verb

honestās

  1. 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, 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

  1. Feminine plural of adjective honesto.

Spanish

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /oˈnestas/, [oˈnest̪as]

Adjective

honestas f pl

  1. Feminine plural of adjective honesto.
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