Oxford Latin Dictionary
Glare, Oxford Latin Dictionary, 801.honor on page 801
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honor honor
honor is a Latin Noun that primarily means honor.
Definitions for honor
Wheelock's Latin
Noun
- 1
honor, esteem, public office
English derivatives:
honorable honorary honorific dishonor honest
Oxford Latin Dictionary
Noun
- 1
High esteem or respect accorded to superior worth or rank, honour. (b) (as enjoyed by the recipient).
- 2
A particular mark of esteem, an honour. (b) (paid to the gods). (c) (given as a reward, etc.; spec., referring to a triumph or supplicatio). (d) (concr.) a thing which confers honour or distinction.
- 3
(in var. phrs.): (a) ~orem habere, To pay honour; ~orem auribus habere, to spare a person's ears. (b) ~orem praeferi, dicere, to apologize for one's language, etc. (c) in ~orem (+ gen.) out of consideration or regard (for). (d) in ~ore esse, to be esteemed or honoured; (also w. other vbs.). (e) ~oris causa, gratia, in order to show one's esteem or regard (for), our of respect.
Sentences with honor
Latin to English
Hic plūrimōs honōrēs quam facillimē accipere vult.Compare This man wishes to get very many honors as easily as possible.
Tantō amōre apud barbarōs fuit ut rēgēs amīcī in honōrem eius conderent cīvitātēs.Compare He was beloved among foreigners that friendly kings founded cities in his honor.
Multa renascentur quae iam cecidere, cadentque quae nunc sunt in honore vocabula, si volet usus.Compare Many a term which has fallen from use shall have a second birth, and those shall fall that are now in high honor, if so Usage shall will it.
Quisnam igitur liber? Sapiens, sibi qui imperiosus, quem neque pauperies neque mors neque vincula terrent, responsare cupidinibus, contemnere honores fortis, et in se ipso totus, teres atque rotundusCompare Who then is free? The wise man alone, who is a stern master to himself, whom neither poverty nor death nor bonds affright, who has the courage to say "no" again and again to desires, to despise the object of ambition, who is a whole in himself, smoothed and rounded.
In pretio pretium nunc est. dat census honores, census amicitias; pauper ubique iacet.Compare Nowadays nothing but money counts: fortune brings honors, friendships, the poor man everywhere lies low.
Idus Martius adsum reus iubeo, qui dies novus magistratus ineo honor.Compare He ordered the defendant to be present on the Ides of March, on which day the new magistrates were about to enter upon their office.
Declension table for honor
Cactus2000
| Singular | Plural | |
| Nom. | honor | honōrēs |
| Gen. | honōris | honōrum |
| Dat. | honōrī | honōribus |
| Acc. | honōrem | honōrēs |
| Abl. | honōre | honōribus |
Data sources
Notes
- Definitions
- Frederick M. Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 6th ed., rev. Richard A. LaFleur (New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers, 2005): 206.
- P. G. W. Glare, Oxford Latin Dictionary, Vols. 1-8 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982): 801.
- Word frequencies
- Christopher Francese, "Latin Core Vocabulary," Dickinson College Commentaries, last modified 2014, http://dcc.dickinson.edu.
- Louis Delatte, Suzanne Govaerts, Joseph Denooz, and Etienne Evrard, Dictionnaire fréquentiel et index inverse de la langue latine [Frequency Dictionary and Inverse Index of the Latin Language] (Liège, Belgium: Laboratoire d'analyse statistique des langues anciennes de l'Université de Liège [L.A.S.L.A.], 1981): 120.
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Citation
Chicago (17th ed.)
Allo Contributors. "honor, honōris (n.) - Latin Word Definition." Allo Latin Dictionary. Last modified . Accessed November 22, 2024. http://ancientlanguages.org/latin/dictionary/honor-honoris.
Entry created on . Last updated on .
Wheelock's Latin
Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 206.honor, honōris on page 206
