honestus

From honor, honos (“honor or honour, esteem”) +‎ -tus.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [hɔˈnɛs.tʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [oˈnɛs.t̪us]

honestus (feminine honesta, neuter honestum, comparative honestior, superlative honestissimus); first/second-declension adjective

1. Full of or regarded with honor/honour; honorable/honourable, of high birth, noble, distinguished, respectable, eminent.
2. Bringing or deserving honor or honour; worthy, creditable, respectable; decent, virtuous.
   • c. 4 BCE – 65 CE, Seneca the Younger, Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium 1.2.5:

     “Honesta,” inquit, “rēs est laeta paupertās.”

     [Seneca quotes from a now-lost work of Epicurus:] “Cheerful poverty,” [Epicurus] says, “is an honorable condition.”

3. (of one's appearance) Fine, handsome, beautiful, becoming, noble.

First/second-declension adjective.

• (antonym(s) of “honorable or honourable”): inhonestus

• “honestus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “honestus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "honestus", 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)
• honestus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) to live (all) one's life (honourably, in the country, as a man of learning): vitam, aetatem (omnem aetatem, omne aetatis tempus) agere (honeste, ruri, in litteris), degere, traducere