pudicus

From pudet (“it shames”) + -īcus.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [pʊˈdiː.kʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [puˈdiː.kus]

pudīcus (feminine pudīca, neuter pudīcum, comparative pudīcior, superlative pudīcissimus, adverb pudīcē); first/second-declension adjective

1. chaste, pure, undefiled
2. modest, shamefaced, bashful
3. virtuous, honorable or honourable, faithful

Note that there is the alternative form pudīcabus for the dative and ablative, feminine plural pudīcīs. First/second-declension adjective.

• (pure, chaste): castus, immaculātus, incorruptus, intemerātus, pūrus
• (shamefaced): pudēns, pudibundus, pudōrātus, pudōrōsus, suffūsus
• (virtuous): castus, honestus

• (antonym(s) of “pure, chaste”): adulter, adulterīnus, cinaedicus, immundus, impudīcus, impūrus, incestus
• (antonym(s) of “virtuous, faithful”): perfidus

• impudīcus
• pudīcē
• pudīcitia

• “pudicus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “pudicus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “pudicus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.