Etymograph

English

pudicity

Pudicity comes from Latin pudicitia ‘chastity, virtue’, from pudicus ‘modest’, and ultimately from pudeō ‘it shames’.

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEpudeōas pudet‘it shames’
  2. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEpudicus‘modest’
  3. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEpudicitia‘chastity, virtue’
  4. Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600pudicité
  5. Englishearliest quotation 1603pudicity

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

Lineage

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEpudeōas pudet‘it shames’
  2. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEpudicus‘modest’
  3. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEpudicitia‘chastity, virtue’
  4. Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600pudicité
  5. Englishearliest quotation 1603pudicity

Earliest quotation: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, Essays: “There are effects, which without impuritie may lose them…”

Linked words

through Latin pudeō ‘it shames’

repudiation, impudent, repudiate, 10 more

Today it means

noun Modesty; chastity.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

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