pudice Latin · revision 34647

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

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''pudīcē''' (comparative pudīcius, superlative pudīcissimē)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is an adverb, [[der|la|pudīcus|t=chaste, modest]], formed with [[m|la|-ē]].^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)^(Wiktionary) The adjective comes from [[m|la|pudeō|t=to be ashamed, (impersonal) it shames]].^(Wiktionary)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Conte and Gaffiot cite it first from Plautus, Gaffiot for the comparative ''pudīcius'',^(Conte 2010)^(Gaffiot 2016) and Köbler from Terence,^(Köbler 2010) in whose ''Andria'' a woman is said to have lived her life decently (''haec pudīcē vītam agēbat'').^(Conte 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means with a sense of propriety, [[m|en|decently]], respectably, and in particular [[m|en|chastely]]:^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913) Terence also writes of a nature well and decently brought up, and Catullus asks that a boy be kept chaste for him (''cōnservēs puerum mihi pudīcē'').^(Georges 1913)^(Conte 2010) Pliny the Younger uses the comparative.^(Gaffiot 2016) Transferred to style, Gellius says each kind of speech becomes more distinguished when it is adorned chastely and modestly, and Fronto uses it in a similar way.^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010) In medieval British Latin it keeps the sense modestly and decently, as when Alcuin, around 798, urges that God be served soberly, chastely and modestly.^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses the comparative.^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Conte 2010)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 190–159 BC – Terence uses it of a decent life.^(Conte 2010)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81/79–52/50 BC – Catullus uses it of keeping a boy chaste.^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 165 AD – Gellius uses it of a chaste style.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 798 – Alcuin uses it in an exhortation to serve God modestly.^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adverb===

+ # With a sense of propriety, [[m|en|decently]], respectably; [[m|en|chastely]].^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)

+ # ''(of style)'' In a chaste or restrained manner.^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[pudēfactus]]

+ * [[pudendus]]

+ * [[pudēns]]

+ * [[pudenter]]

+ * [[pudet]]

+ * [[pudibilis]]

+ * [[pudibundus]]

+ * [[pudīcitia]]

+ * [[pudīcus]]

+ * [[pudor]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}