pudor

Borrowed from Latin pudor (“sense of modesty or shame”), from pudet (“it shames”), as is pudency (via pudentia).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpjuːdɔː/, /ˈpjuːdər/

pudor (uncountable)

1. An appropriate sense of modesty or shame.
   • 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses:

     Woman, undoing with sweet pudor her belt of rushrope, offers her allmoist yoni to man’s lingam.

• Proud, pour'd, proud

Borrowed from Latin pudōrem.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencian) [puˈðor]

pudor m (plural pudors)

1. shame

   Synonym: vergonya

2. modesty

From Latin pūtōrem. First attested in the 14th century.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [puˈðo]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [puˈðoɾ]

pudor f (plural pudors)

1. stench, malodor

• “pudor” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From pudet (“it shames”) +‎ -or.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpu.dor/, [ˈpʊd̪ɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpu.dor/, [ˈpuːd̪or]

pudor m (genitive pudōris); third declension

1. A sense of shame; shamefacedness, shyness; ignominy, disgrace; humiliation

   Synonym: verēcundia

   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 5.593–594:

     Parthe, refers aquilās, vīctōs quoque porrigis arcūs:
     pignora iam nostrī nūlla pudōris habēs.

     Parthian, you are returning the eagles, you are extending the vanquished bows as well: Now you have no tokens of our shame.
     (See: Phraates V; Aquila (Roman).)

2. Modesty, decency, propriety, scrupulousness, shame, chastity; also, these qualities or behaviors personified as “Shame”, “Modesty”, etc.
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.24-27:

     “Sed mihi vel tellūs optem prius īmā dēhīscat,
     vel Pater omnipotēns adigat mē fulmine ad umbrās,
     pallentīs umbrās Erebī noctemque profundam,
     ante, Pudor, quam tē violō, aut tua iūra resolvō.”

     “But first I would pray — either that deepest earth gape open for me, or the Father almighty hurl me with his thunderbolt to the shades, the pallid shades and boundless night of Erebus — sooner than I violate you, [my sense of] Shame, or unbind your laws.”
     (For an analysis of “Pudor” in this context, see: Gildenhard, I., [2012], Virgil, Aeneid 4.1–299, Open Book Publishers, pp. 73-75. Translations vary – Mackail, 1885: “mine honour”; Mandelbaum, 1971: “Shame”; Fitzgerald, 1981: “O chaste life”; West, 1990: “my conscience”; Lombardo, 2005: “O Modesty”.)

3. A blush

Third-declension noun.

• “pudor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “pudor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• pudor 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)
• pudor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Learned borrowing from Latin pudōrem.

• Rhymes: (Portugal, São Paulo) -oɾ, (Brazil) -oʁ
• Hyphenation: pu‧dor

pudor m (plural pudores)

1. pudor (appropriate sense of modesty or shame)

• IPA^(key): /puˈdoɾ/ [puˈð̞oɾ]
• Rhymes: -oɾ
• Syllabification: pu‧dor

Borrowed from Latin pudōrem.

pudor m (plural pudores)

1. shame

   Synonym: vergüenza

2. modesty

   Synonym: modestia

Inherited from Latin pūtōrem.

pudor m (plural pudores)

1. stench, malodor, fetidness (bad smell)

   Synonym: hedor, hediondez

• “pudor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014