pudicitia Latin · revision 31141

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=la pudet}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [pʊ.diːˈkɪ.ti.a]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [pu.diˈt͡ʃit.t͡si.a]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''pudīcitia''' ''f'' (genitive pudīcitiae); first declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is formed from [[m|la|pudīcus|t=chaste, modest]] with the suffix [[m|la|-itia]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) ⟨Pudīcus⟩ comes from [[m|la|pudet|t=it shames]].^(Wiktionary)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler gives Plautus as its first author,^(Köbler 2010) who pairs it with ''pudor'' in the ''Amphitruo''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is sexual purity, chastity and virtue, and also shamefacedness and modesty, as Cicero's “here chastity, there debauchery”.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Personified, Pudicitia was worshipped as a goddess, as Propertius' temples of Chastity and Livy's shrine of Patrician Chastity in the Forum Boarium.^(OLD 2012)

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+ Church Latin glosses it “purity, chastity”.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus paired with ''pudor''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero opposing it to debauchery.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 57/46–12 BC – Propertius of the goddess.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # [[m|en|chastity|alt=Chastity]], sexual purity, virtue; [[m|en|modesty]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # ''(personified)'' Pudicitia, the goddess of chastity.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[pudet]]

+ * [[pudor]]

+ * [[castitās]]

+ * [[verēcundia]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ Döderlein says that [[castus]] is chastity as a natural purity of the soul, while ''pudīcus'' and ''pudīcitia'' are a moral feeling, bashful and modest.^(Döderlein 1874)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}