dehonestamentum Latin · revision 34555

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=86–34 BC, Sallust|origins=la honōs}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [de.(ɦ)ɔ.nɛs.taːˈmɛn.tũː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [de.o.nes.taˈmɛn.tum]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''dehonestāmentum''' ''n'' (genitive dehonestāmentī); second declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|dehonestō|-mentum|t1=to disgrace]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan derives [[m|la|honestus|t=honourable]] and [[m|la|honestō|t=to honour]] from [[m|la|honōs|t=honour]], for which no further etymology is known.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The TLL records it from Sallust on,^(TLL) whose ''Histories'', quoted by Gellius, say that Sertorius rejoiced in the disfigurement of his body;^(TLL)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Georges explains this as wounds and a lost eye.^(Georges 1913)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Apart from Sallust, Lewis and Short find it only after Augustus, in place of [[dēdecus]] or [[ignōminia]].^(Lewis & Short 1879) Seneca lists insults, ignominies and other indignities, and Tacitus uses it of a face disfigured in the same way and of buffoons, actors and charioteers who were a disgrace to friendship.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913) Sallust and Trebellius Pollio call a person the disgrace of all honours, and Justinus speaks of a disgrace of birth.^(Georges 1913)

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+ In medieval Latin it also meant an encroachment or derogatory act.^(Niermeyer 1976) Bede uses it of the disfigurement of tearing one's clothes and pulling out one's hair, and a British source of 1382 of an insult.^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 86–34 BC – Sallust uses it of a disfigured body and of a disgraceful person.^(TLL)^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 4 BC–65 AD – Seneca uses it of indignities.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 98–115 AD – Tacitus uses it of a disfigured face and disgraceful company.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1382 – A British source uses it of an insult.^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A [[m|en|disfigurement]], blemish.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # A source of [[m|en|disgrace]] or dishonour; of a person, a disgrace (to something).^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)

+ # An act inflicting dishonour, an [[m|en|indignity]], insult.^(OLD 2012)^(DMLBS)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' An [[m|en|encroachment]], derogatory action.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[dehonestō]]

+ * [[dēdecus]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}