pudicus Latin · revision 8419

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Plautus|origins=la pudet}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [pʊˈdiː.kʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [puˈdiː.kus]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''pudīcus''' (feminine pudīca, neuter pudīcum, comparative pudīcior, superlative pudīcissimus, adverb pudīcē); first/second-declension adjective^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is from [[pudeō]], [[pudet]] “it shames”, with the suffix [[-īcus]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The OLD's earliest citation is from Plautus, of sexual purity.^(OLD 2012) Köbler dates Plautus c. 250–184 BC.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It meant sexually pure, chaste, and also, without reference to sex, having a sense of decency, honourable, both in Plautus.^(OLD 2012) Lewis & Short give shamefaced, bashful, modest.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Propertius and Ovid use it of what is pure, blameless.^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ British Medieval Latin used it for chaste, decent, modest.^(DMLBS) It survives in Italian ''pudico'' and French ''pudique'', and English used [[m|en|pudic]] in the sense “modest” from the late 14th century.^(Wiktionary)^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of chaste people.^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * late 14th century – English ''pudic'' is recorded, “modest”.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # [[m|en|Chaste]], sexually pure.^(OLD 2012)

+ # [[m|en|Modest]], decent, honourable.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[dēpudīcō]]

+ * [[impudīcus]]

+ * [[pudīcitia]]

+ * [[pudīcē]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[pudēfactus]]

+ * [[pudendus]]

+ * [[pudēns]]

+ * [[pudenter]]

+ * [[pudescit]]

+ * [[pudet]]

+ * [[pudibilis]]

+ * [[pudibundus]]

+ * [[pudor]]

+ * [[pudōrātus]]

+ * [[en|pudic]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}