verecundia
See also: verecúndia
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From verēcundus (“feeling shame, shamefaced, bashful, shy, modest”) + -ia.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /u̯e.reːˈkun.di.a/, [u̯ɛreːˈkʊn̪d̪iä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ve.reˈkun.di.a/, [vereˈkun̪d̪iä]
Noun
[edit]verēcundia f (genitive verēcundiae); first declension
- knowing one's place, regarded as a virtue; coyness, modesty
- shyness, bashfulness
- shame, awe
- Synonym: pudor
Declension
[edit]First-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | verēcundia | verēcundiae |
| genitive | verēcundiae | verēcundiārum |
| dative | verēcundiae | verēcundiīs |
| accusative | verēcundiam | verēcundiās |
| ablative | verēcundiā | verēcundiīs |
| vocative | verēcundia | verēcundiae |
Descendants
[edit]- Aragonese: vergüenya
- Corsican: vargogna
- Emilian: vergògna
- Franco-Provençal: vergogni
- Friulian: vergonze, vergonge
- Istriot: varguogna
- Italian: vergogna f
- Old Occitan: vergonça (Catalonia), vergonya (Catalonia), vergonha? f
- Old French: vergogne, vergoigne f
- Old Leonese: vergonça
- Old Galician-Portuguese: vergonna, vergonça
- Piedmontese: vërgògna
- Romansch: verguogna
- Sardinian: bergugna, bregúngia, birgonza, bregunza, brigunza, frigonza, vilgonza, bilgonza
- Sicilian: virigogna, virivogna, virgogna, virvogna, vrigogna, briogna
- Old Spanish: verguença, verguenna
- Venetan: vargogna
Later borrowings:
- → French: vérécondie f
- → Italian: verecondia
- → Portuguese: verecúndia
- → Spanish: verecundia
References
[edit]- “verecundia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “verecundia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- verecundia 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)
- verecundia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911) “vĕrēcŭndia”, in Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), page 703