pudor
English
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Latin pudor (“sense of modesty or shame”), from pudet (“it shames”), as is pudency (via pudentia).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editpudor (uncountable)
- 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.
Translations
editappropriate sense of modesty or shame
Anagrams
editCatalan
editEtymology 1
editPronunciation
editNoun
editpudor m (plural pudors)
Etymology 2
editFrom Latin pūtōrem. First attested in the 14th century.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editpudor f (plural pudors)
Further reading
edit- “pudor” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Latin
editEtymology
editFrom pudet (“it shames”) + -or.
Pronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈpu.dor/, [ˈpʊd̪ɔr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈpu.dor/, [ˈpuːd̪or]
Noun
editpudor m (genitive pudōris); third declension
- 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).)
- Parthian, you are returning the eagles, you are extending the vanquished bows as well: Now you have no tokens of our shame.
- Parthe, refers aquilās, vīctōs quoque porrigis arcūs:
- 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”.)
- “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.”
- “Sed mihi vel tellūs optem prius īmā dēhīscat,
- A blush
Declension
editThird-declension noun.
singular | plural | |
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nominative | pudor | pudōrēs |
genitive | pudōris | pudōrum |
dative | pudōrī | pudōribus |
accusative | pudōrem | pudōrēs |
ablative | pudōre | pudōribus |
vocative | pudor | pudōrēs |
Derived terms
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editDescendants
editReferences
edit- “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.
Portuguese
editEtymology
editLearned borrowing from Latin pudōrem.
Pronunciation
edit
Noun
editpudor m (plural pudores)
- pudor (appropriate sense of modesty or shame)
Spanish
editPronunciation
editEtymology 1
editNoun
editpudor m (plural pudores)
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editEtymology 2
editNoun
editpudor m (plural pudores)
- stench, malodor, fetidness (bad smell)
- Synonym: hedor, hediondez
Related terms
editFurther reading
edit- “pudor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
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