“honor” in Latin

honorare: ornare: decorare: prosequi (by giving outward demonstrations by anything, aliqua re): honestare (to confer a permanent mark of honor upon anybody): revereri aliquem: reverentiam adhibere adversus aliquem: reverentiam praestare alicui (by showing due respect): observare: observantia colere: officiis prosequi (general term, by external signs of respect, as by going to meet anybody, by accompanying him, waiting upon him, etc.): magni facere: admirari: suspicere (to value highly; admirari, with admiration; suspicere, with a sense of our own inferiority; ☞ Cic., Off., 2, 10, 36): colere: colere et observare: vereri et colere: venerari: veneratione prosequi (in heart and with reverence). A person or thing is honored, aliquis or aliquid in honore est; honos est or tribuitur alicui rei; justly, justam venerationem habet aliquis or aliquid: I am honored by anybody, in honore sum apud aliquem: to honor anybody with tears, aliquem lacrimis decorare (poetical) or prosequi (especially the dead): to honor and love anybody above all others, aliquem praeter ceteros et colere et observare et diligere. To honor anybody with anything, honorare aliquem (to do anybody an honor, absolutely, or with anything, aliqua re): aliquem ornare aliqua re (to distinguish anybody with anything): aliquem colere aliqua re (to show one’s respect to anybody by anything): to honor anybody with a letter, litteris colere aliquem; with presents, donis aliquem honorare, colere, prosequi; with a visit, salutandi causa ad aliquem venire; with one’s presence, praesentia sua (of one) or frequentia (of several) ornare aliquem; with one’s confidence, consiliorum suorum conscium aliquem facere et participem.

(1) (1) External pre-eminence, external dignity, honos (in almost all the relations of the English word, whether the honor consist in pre-eminence before others, in outward dignity, in general and real esteem, or objectively in posts of honor): dignitas: auctoritas (external dignity, grounded on the estimate of our desert): decus: ornamentum (anything which gives pre-eminence): laus: gloria: fama (praise, glory, jame; an extensive recognition of one’s merits): observantia (actual respect shown). The last honors, the honors paid to the dead, honos supremus; officium supremum: to tend or conduce to honor, honori, laudi, decori or ornamento esse: it is a very great honor to me, that, etc., summo honori mihi est, quod etc.: to be an honor to, to bring honor to, alicui honorificum esse: to be no honor to, pudori esse: to be an honor to a family, to bring honor to it, domum honestare: your son is an honor to you, does honor to you, dignus te est filius: your behavior does you no honor, non te dignum facis (comically): that causes or confers honor, honestus; honorificus: to get honor, laudari; laudem merere: to consider, esteem, or hold as an honor, to place one’s honor in, honori or laudi ducere; in honore ponere: do us the honor of an early call or visit, fac, ut quam primum ad nos venias; cura, ut te quam primum videamus: I wish or hope for the honor of your presence or company, optabilis mihi erit tui praesentis facultas (Vid: Planc, in Cic., Ep., 10, 4, 3): to be or stand in honor, in honore esse (of persons and things): esse in aliquo numero et honore; cum dignitate vivere (of persons): to be held in honor by anybody, apud aliquem esse in honore et in pretio: in very great honor, honore or dignitate florere, dignitate excellere (of persons): one who is held in honor by all, in quo est magna auctoritas: to deprive anybody of his honor, honore aliquem privare: to hold in honor, in honore habere (a person and thing): colere, colere et observare, observare et colere (a person; colere also a personified thing, as urbem): anything is held in great honor, honos est alicui rei: to hold anything just as much in honor, alicui rei eundem honorem tribuere (Vid: Cic., Fin., 3, 22, 73): to hold anybody in great honor, aliquem magno in honore habere; aliquem colere maxime or summa observantia; aliquem praecipuo semper honore habere: to undertake anything in honor of anybody, honoris alicujus causa aliquid suscipere: a great feast is given in honor of a victory, est grande convivium in honorem victoriae: to do or show honor to anybody, alicui honorem dare, habere, tribuere, deferre, deferre et dare; honore aliquem afficere, ornare, deornare, prosequi: to do or show especial honor to anybody, praecipuum honorem habere alicui: to show all possible honor to anybody, omni honore colere aliquem; nullum honorem praetermittere, qui alicui haberi potest: to heap honors upon anybody, effundere, si ita vis, honores in aliquem (Pseudo-Cic., Ep., ad Brut., 1, 15, p. med; the si ita vis is used, because the expression was unusual): to treat anybody with all possible affection and honor, aliquem liberalissime atque honorificentissime tractare: to show just and due honor to anybody, honorem justum ac debitum habere: the Senate conferred upon him the extraordinary honor of erecting a statue to him in the Palatium, senatus honore rarissimo statua in Palatio posita prosecutus est eum: to pay divine honors to anybody, deorum honores alicui tribuere (Cic., Milon., 29, 79); aliquem inter deos colere, pro deo venerari, in deorum numero venerari et colere: to cause divine honors to be paid to one’s self, coelestes honores usurpare (Curt., 8, 5, 5): to enjoy divine honors, deorum honoribus coli: to pay the last honors to anybody, supremo in aliquem officio fungi; supremum officium in aliquem celebrare (of or with several; Curt., 3, 12, 11 and 14); suprema alicui solvere; justa alicui facere, praestare, persolvere: to endeavor or strive after honor, famam quaerere: to try or endeavor to promote one’s own honor, honori suo velificari; honoris adjumenta sibi quaerere (to look for a way to attain to honor): to strive after honors, honoribus inservire: to attain to honors, honores assequi (e.g., gradually, gradatim); ad honores ascendere, pervenire; honoribus augeri: to reach or attain to higher or greater honors, honoribus procedere longius; altiorem dignitatis gradum consequi; ascendere (ad) altiorem gradum; in ampliorem gradum promoveri: to attain to or reach the highest honors, ad summos honores provehi; ad summum honorem pervenire; ascendere in celsissimam sedem dignitatis atque honoris: gradually to attain to or to reach the highest honors, efferri per honorum gradus ad summum imperium: to be restored to one’s former honors, in antiquum honoris locum restitui: to raise anybody to honor, ad dignitatem aliquem perducere: to bring or help anybody to the highest honor, aliquem ad amplissimos honores or ad summam dignitatem perducere. (2) Good name, etc., existimatio (good opinion which others have of us; also with bona): fama (good report, especially, also, the honor of a female; also with bona; Vid: Herzog, Sall., Cat., 25, 3): dignitas (good opinion acquired among the people by moral and political prudent conduct). To wound the honor of anybody, alicujus existimationem offendere; alicujus dignitatem labefactare: to injure or lessen the honor of anybody, alicujus existimationem violare; de alicujus fama detrahere: to impugn or attack the honor of anybody, alicujus existimationem oppugnare: to have a regard to honor, famae or dignitati consulere; famae servire: not to have a regard to honor, dignitati, or modestiae, or famae non parcere (the last; e.g., Tac., Ann., 13, 45, 3, of a woman): only a few looked to the honor of their country, paucis decus publicum curae (Tac., Ann., 12, 48, 1): to sully one’s honor, famam suam laedere: to guard one’s honor, collectam famam conservare: to suffer some loss of honor, de existimatione sua aliquid perdere or deperdere; existimationis detrimentum or dignitatis jacturam facere: to forfeit one’s honor, in infamia esse; infamia laborare (Ulp., Dig., 3, 2, 6): my honor is at stake in that matter, mea existimatio in. ea re agitur; venio in existimationis discrimen: upon my honor, bona fide: to promise anything upon one’s honor, bona or optima fide polliceri; fide sua spondere (Plin., Ep., 1, 14, 10). (b) In a narrower sense = maidenly innocence, decus muliebre (Liv., 1, 48): pudicitia, pudor (chastity). To rob a woman of her honor, decus muliebre expugnare (Liv., loc. cit.); pudicitiam alicui eripere or expugnare; vitium afferre alicujus pudicitiae; aliquam vitiare: to lose one’s honor, pudicitiam amittere: to preserve the honor of a maid, alicui pudicitiam servare. (3) Dignity, external prosperity, honos: with honor, in all honor, honeste (e.g., divitias habere): I do not know how to get off with honor in any other manner, alio pacto honeste quomodo hinc abeam, nescio (Ter., Eun. 4, 4, 49): to return with disgrace to the place from which one went out with honor, unde cum honore decesseris, eodem cum ignominia reverti: as a mark of honor, honoris causa or gratia (e.g., nominare aliquem). (4) The sense, principle, or feeling of honor, integrity, honestas (e.g., ubi est dignitas, nisi ubi honestas? etc., virtue as exhibiting itself in virtuous and noble sentiments; Döderlein): probitas: integritas: sanctitas (moral purity): innocentia (innocent course of life): animus ingenuus: ingenuitas (noble manner of thinking): fides (credit, trustworthiness); (The words are found in this connection and order.) integritas et fides; probitas et ingenuitas: (famae) pudor (shame; fearing the loss of one’s good name). A wretch not only without honor, but who does not even pretend to it, ab omni non modo honestate, sed etiam simulatione honestatis relictus (Cic.): one that has no honor in him, *homo nullo pudore: one that has a deep sense of honor, homo summo pudore: if he has even a slight sense of honor, in quo est aliquis famae pudor. (5) A person or thing which is an honor to others, ornamentum, decus. He was the light and the honor of our state, lumen et ornamentum reipublicae fuit.

Debts of honor (according to the unjust code of the fashionable world), damna aleatoria.

Post of honor [Vid: POST].

To do the honors to anybody, aliquem omnibus officiis prosequi (general term): hospitio aliquem accipere (to receive him as his host). Guard of honor; Vid: GUARD.