"honest" in seven languages
Meaninghonest
Spanish
honesto
/oˈnesto/
learned
Honrado is an everyday synonym.
French
honnête
/ɔnɛt/
learned
Italian
onesto
/oˈnɛsto/
learned
Portuguese
honesto
/oˈnɛstu/
learned
Romanian
cinstit
/tʃinsˈtit/
other source · participle of cinsti 'to honour', from cinste 'honour' (Slavic čĭstĭ)
Catalan
honest
/uˈnɛst/
learned
English
honest
/ˈɑnɪst/
from Latin/French · Old French honeste
English → ItalianhonestonestoCognateSame source — inherited, learned or borrowed. You can recognize it.What English and Italian share
The Latin ancestor
HONESTUM‘honourable, respectable’
All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.
The story
French dropped the s and marked it with a circumflex: honnête beside honest, onesto, honesto. The h is silent wherever it is still written; Italian dropped it.
English relatives: honour, honesty, honorary
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In a sentence
- esEs un hombre honesto.
- frC'est un homme honnête.
- itÈ un uomo onesto.
- ptEle é um homem honesto.
- roEste un om cinstit.
- caÉs un home honest.
- enHe's an honest man.
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