verecundus - Wiktionary, the free dictionary (original) (raw)

From vereor (“to revere, fear”) +‎ -cundus (cf. -undus).

• (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /u̯e.reːˈkun.dus/, [u̯ɛreːˈkʊn̪d̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ve.reˈkun.dus/, [vereˈkun̪d̪us]

verēcundus (feminine verēcunda, neuter verēcundum, comparative verēcundior); first/second-declension adjective

1. feeling shame, shamefaced, bashful, shy, modest
   Antonym: inverēcundus
2. (by extension) worthy of reverence, venerable

First/second-declension adjective.

• verēcundia

• verēcunditer

• verēcundor

• verendus

• verenter

• vereor

• verētrum

• English: verecund

• Italian: verecondo

• Portuguese: verecundo

• “verecundus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

• “verecundus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers

• verecundus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.