honestas

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.

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

honestās f (genitive honestātis); third declension

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

Third-declension noun.

(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

honestās

1. second-person singular present active indicative of honestō

• “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, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to deviate from the path of virtue: honestatem deserere
    

honestas f pl

1. feminine plural of honesto

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

honestas f pl

1. feminine plural of honesto

honestas

1. second-person singular present indicative of honestar