honestas

Latin

Etymology

From either honestus (“honored, having or deserving honor”) or honor (“honour”) +‎ -(i)tās; in the former case, this would be a haplological form of *honestitās.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /hoˈnes.taːs/, [hɔˈnɛs̠t̪äːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /oˈnes.tas/, [oˈnɛst̪äs]

Noun

honestās f (genitive honestātis); third declension

1. respectability
2. honor, honour, honorableness
3. (by extension) (honorable) character, integrity, probity, virtue
4. wealth

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	honestās	honestātēs
genitive	honestātis	honestātum
dative	honestātī	honestātibus
accusative	honestātem	honestātēs
ablative	honestāte	honestātibus
vocative	honestās	honestātēs

Descendants

(Many descendants had the ending of the medieval inherited word analogized following the descendant of -itās.)

• Catalan: honestedat
• Italian: onestà
• Old French: honesté
  • French: honnêteté
  • → Middle English: honeste
    • English: honesty
    • Scots: honesty
• Old Spanish: onestat, onestad
  • Spanish: honestad, honestidad
• Occitan: onestetat
• Piedmontese: onestà
• Portuguese: honestidade
• Romanian: onestitate, onestate (obsolete)
• Sicilian: unistà

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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• honestas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to deviate from the path of virtue: honestatem deserere
    

Portuguese

Adjective

honestas f pl

1. feminine plural of honesto

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /oˈnestas/ [oˈnes.t̪as]
• Rhymes: -estas
• Syllabification: ho‧nes‧tas

Adjective

honestas f pl

1. feminine plural of honesto

Verb

honestas

1. second-person singular present indicative of honestar