pudicitia

Latin pudīcitia

pudicitia (uncountable)

1. (historical) The Ancient Roman concept of sexual virtue, involving modesty and loyalty to one's partner.

From pudīcus (“chaste; modest, shamefaced”) +‎ -itia, from pudet (“it shames”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /pu.diːˈki.ti.a/, [pʊd̪iːˈkɪt̪iä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /pu.diˈt͡ʃit.t͡si.a/, [pud̪iˈt͡ʃit̪ː͡s̪iä]

pudīcitia f (genitive pudīcitiae); first declension

1. chastity, virtue; shamefacedness, modesty

   Synonym: castitās

   Antonym: impudīcitia

First-declension noun.

• → English: pudicity
• → Italian: pudicizia
• → Portuguese: pudicícia

• “pudicitia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “pudicitia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• pudicitia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “pudicitia”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “pudicitia”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray