pudor

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pudor (“sense of modesty or shame”), from pudet (“it shames”), as is pudency (via pudentia).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpjuːdɔː/

Noun

pudor (uncountable)

1. 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.

Anagrams

• Proud, proud

Etymology

From pudet (“it shames”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpu.dor/, [ˈpʊ.dɔr]

Noun

pudor m (genitive pudōris); third declension

1. A sense of shame; shamefacedness, shyness; ignominy, disgrace; humiliation.
2. Modesty, decency, propriety, scrupulousness, chastity.
3. A blush.

References

• 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, 1883–1887)
• pudor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pudor, pudōrem.

Noun

pudor m (plural pudores)

1. pudor (appropriate sense of modesty or shame)

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pudor, pudōrem.

Noun

pudor m (plural pudores)

1. shame
2. modesty