honesto

From honestus (“honorable, respectable”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /hoˈnes.toː/, [hɔˈnɛs̠t̪oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /oˈnes.to/, [oˈnɛst̪o]

honestō (present infinitive honestāre, perfect active honestāvī, supine honestātum); first conjugation

1. to honor, dignify, clothe with honor

• (honor): honōrō

• “honesto”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “honesto”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• honesto in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) a virtuous (immoral) life: vita honesta (turpis)
    
  • (ambiguous) to follow virtue; to flee from vice: honesta expetere; turpia fugere
    
  • (ambiguous) of illustrious family: nobili, honesto, illustri loco or genere natus
    

From Old Galician-Portuguese onesto, from Latin honestus, from honor.

• Hyphenation: ho‧nes‧to

honesto (feminine honesta, masculine plural honestos, feminine plural honestas, comparable, comparative mais honesto, superlative o mais honesto or honestíssimo)

1. honest (scrupulous with regard to telling the truth)

• honestamente

• “honesto” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Borrowed from Latin honestus, an adjective based on honor.

• IPA^(key): /oˈnesto/ [oˈnes.t̪o]
• Rhymes: -esto
• Syllabification: ho‧nes‧to

honesto (feminine honesta, masculine plural honestos, feminine plural honestas)

1. honest

   Synonym: sincero

2. honorable

   Synonym: honrado

honesto

1. first-person singular present indicative of honestar

• “honesto”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014