pudicus

Latin

Etymology

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Latin pudet

Proto-Indo-European *-kosder.

Latin -īcus

Latin pudīcus

From pudet (“it shames”) + -īcus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [pʊˈdiː.kʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [puˈdiː.kus]

Adjective

pudīcus (feminine pudīca, neuter pudīcum, comparative pudīcior, superlative pudīcissimus, adverb pudīcē); first/second-declension adjective

1. chaste, pure, undefiled
2. modest, shamefaced, bashful
3. virtuous, honorable or honourable, faithful

Declension

Note that there is the alternative form pudīcabus for the dative and ablative, feminine plural pudīcīs. First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	pudīcus	pudīca	pudīcum		pudīcī	pudīcae	pudīca
genitive	pudīcī	pudīcae	pudīcī		pudīcōrum	pudīcārum	pudīcōrum
dative	pudīcō	pudīcae	pudīcō		pudīcīs
accusative	pudīcum	pudīcam	pudīcum		pudīcōs	pudīcās	pudīca
ablative	pudīcō	pudīcā	pudīcō		pudīcīs
vocative	pudīce	pudīca	pudīcum		pudīcī	pudīcae	pudīca

Synonyms

• (pure, chaste): castus, immaculātus, incorruptus, intemerātus, pūrus
• (shamefaced): pudēns, pudibundus, pudōrātus, pudōrōsus, suffūsus
• (virtuous): castus, honestus

Antonyms

• (antonym(s) of “pure, chaste”): adulter, adulterīnus, cinaedicus, immundus, impudīcus, impūrus, incestus
• (antonym(s) of “virtuous, faithful”): perfidus

Derived terms

• impudīcus
• pudīcē
• pudīcitia

Related terms

• pudēfactus
• pudendus
• pudēns
• pudenter
• pudescit
• pudet
• pudibilis
• pudibundus
• pudor
• pudōrātus
• pudōricolor
• pudōrōsus

Descendants

• Catalan: púdic
• English: pudic
• French: pudique
• Galician: púdico
• Italian: pudico
• Portuguese: pudico
• Romanian: pudic
• Spanish: púdico

References

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