honesta

honesta is a Latin form of honestus, meaning “honorable, respected”. It is the accusative plural neuter adjective or nominative singular feminine adjective.

Found 278 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Civili 3.32: … privato compendio serviebant; dictitabant enim se domo patriaque expulsos omnibus necessariis egere rebus, ut honesta praescriptione rem turpissimam tegerent. Accedebant ad haec gravissimae usurae, quod in bello plerumque accid …

Cicero, De Officiis 2.69: … quidem est proclive, itaque volgo loquuntur, se in beneficiis collocandis mores hominum, non fortunam sequi. Honesta oratio est; sed quis est tandem, qui inopis et optimi viri causae non anteponat in opera danda gratiam fortun …

All forms of honestus (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.