Etymology

verecund

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Today it means: modest Full definition →

Latin verēcundus
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  1. Latin · learned borrowing fromverēcundus
  2. Latin · learned borrowing fromverēcundus
  3. English todayverecund

Learned borrowing from Latin verēcundus (“shy, modest”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.