honte

honto +‎ -e

honte

1. shamefully
2. ashamedly

From Middle French, from Old French hunte (“dishonour”), from Frankish *haunitha (“disdain, scorn, ridicule”), from Proto-Germanic *hauniþō (“humiliation”), from Proto-Indo-European *kaw- (“to be evil, make evil”). Cognate with Old High German hōnida (“dishonour”), Middle Dutch hoonde (“dishonour”), Old English hīenþ, hīenþu (“humiliation”). More at hean.

• ^{(aspirated h)} IPA^(key): /ɔ̃t/

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• (Louisiana) IPA^(key): /hɔ̃t/, [hɔ̃n]
• Rhymes: -ɔ̃t

honte f (plural hontes)

1. shame (feeling)

• honteux

• “honte” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• hunte, hounte

From Vulgar Latin *hōnta, *haunta, from Frankish *haunitha.

• IPA^(key): /ˈhõn.tə/

honte f (oblique plural hontes, nominative singular honte, nominative plural hontes)

1. shame (feeling)

• Middle French: honte
  • French: honte
• → Middle English: hountee, honteye

honte

1. inflection of hoti (“to be”):
   1. present active participle masculine and neuter locative singular
   2. present active participle masculine accusative plural