honorus

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

hŏnōrus, a, um, adj. [honor, analog. with decorus from decor] (poet. and in postAug. prose). *

I Worthy of honor , honorable , Stat. Th. 5, 40.—

II That confers honor , honorable : carmen, glorifying , Val. Fl. 4, 342: fama, Stat. Th. 2, 629: mors, id. ib. 4, 230: oratio, Tac. A. 1, 10 fin. : quae in Drusum patrem Germanici honora et magnifica Augustus fecisset, id. ib. 3, 5: honora de Germanico disserebat, id. ib. 4, 68.

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