respectable
respectable
adj.
Honest: P. and V. χρηστός.
Middle-class: P. and V. μέτριος.
Orderly: P. and V. κόσμιος, εὔκοσμος, Ar. and P. εὔτακτος.
Tolerable: P. and V. μέτριος.
adj.
Honest: P. and V. χρηστός.
Middle-class: P. and V. μέτριος.
Orderly: P. and V. κόσμιος, εὔκοσμος, Ar. and P. εὔτακτος.
Tolerable: P. and V. μέτριος.
RESPECTABLE
colendus: suspiciendus (to be looked up to): honestus (honorable): venerabilis (deserving of veneration): conspiciendus and spectabilis (☞ not before the Augustan age): a respectable man vir honestus gravis; spectatus et honestus: vir bonae existimationis (of unblemished reputation): vir spectabilis (as a title under the emperors Cod. Just.).
colendus: suspiciendus (to be looked up to): honestus (honorable): venerabilis (deserving of veneration): conspiciendus and spectabilis (☞ not before the Augustan age): a respectable man vir honestus gravis; spectatus et honestus: vir bonae existimationis (of unblemished reputation): vir spectabilis (as a title under the emperors Cod. Just.).
respectable:
I. Worthy of respect:
1. hŏnestus (honourable): born in a r. station, honesto loco natus, Cic. Tusc. 5, 20, 58: there is no opening for r. occupations, artibus h. nullus est locus, Juv. 3, 21: the Cretans consider brigandage r., Cretes latrocinari honestum putant, Cic. Rep. 3, 9.
2. vĕnĕrābĭlis: v.REVEREND .
3. bŏnus (often used of men of good birth and standing), Cic. Clu. 65, 182: of r. family, bono genere natus, Pl. (N.B.--Spectābĭlis is an official epithet.) Phr.: all the r. people in the state are agreed, omnes honestates civitatis una consentiunt, Cic. Sest. 51, 109: a tolerably r. freedman, mundior libertinus, Hor. Sat. 2, 7, 12.
II. Passable, tolerable: tŏlĕrābĭlis: v.TOLERABLE .
I. Worthy of respect:
1. hŏnestus (honourable): born in a r. station, honesto loco natus, Cic. Tusc. 5, 20, 58: there is no opening for r. occupations, artibus h. nullus est locus, Juv. 3, 21: the Cretans consider brigandage r., Cretes latrocinari honestum putant, Cic. Rep. 3, 9.
2. vĕnĕrābĭlis: v.
3. bŏnus (often used of men of good birth and standing), Cic. Clu. 65, 182: of r. family, bono genere natus, Pl. (N.B.--Spectābĭlis is an official epithet.) Phr.: all the r. people in the state are agreed, omnes honestates civitatis una consentiunt, Cic. Sest. 51, 109: a tolerably r. freedman, mundior libertinus, Hor. Sat. 2, 7, 12.
II. Passable, tolerable: tŏlĕrābĭlis: v.