The corpus record — Latin

hŏnestĭtūdo

honourableness

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What it meant

1. honestitudo — de Vaan

honestitudo 'honourableness' (Ace), honestas 'honour, integrity' (Sis.+); inhonestus 'of ill repute, shameful' (P1.+), co(ho)nestare 'to pay respect' (Acc.+). Lat. honestus < *hones-to-* Latin hon- can hardly reflect anything but *g*on- or *ghon-, but no further etymology is known, Bibl: WH I: 655f, EM 298, Leumann 1977: 179, 379. — [de Vaan, s.v. honestitudo, p. 302]

2. hŏnestĭtūdo — Lewis & Short

hŏnestĭtūdo, ĭnis, f.honestus,

I honorableness, virtue (ante-class. for honestas, II.): tua honestitudo Danaos decipit diu, Att. ap. Non. 121, 1 (Trag. Fr. v. 501 Rib.): horrida Europae, id. ib. 120, 31 (Fragm. Tr. v. 16 Rib.).

Where it came from

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