honte

Meaning

1. shame (feeling)
2. shame (something shameful)

Gender

♀️ Feminine

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɔ̃t/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French honte, from Old French hunte (“dishonour”), from Early Medieval Latin haunta, borrowed from Frankish *haunitha (“disdain, scorn, ridicule”), from Proto-Germanic *hauniþō (“humiliation”), from Proto-Indo-European *kaw- (“to be evil, make evil”).
Cognate with Old High German hōnida (“dishonour”), Middle Dutch hoonde (“dishonour”), Old English hīenþ, hīenþu (“humiliation”). More at hean.

Sentences

Mais il eut une honte extrême de ce mouvement et se releva bien vite .

But he felt extremely ashamed of this impulse and rose quickly.