honneste
Honneste is a historical spelling that appears in some early modern texts as an archaic variant of the English adjective honest. It is not part of contemporary Standard English and is typically encountered in philological or textual studies rather than everyday usage.
The form derives from the same Latin root honestus and from the Old French honeste. In the
Today, honneste is regarded as obsolete or literary-historical. It may be cited by dictionaries and scholarly
In some Romance-derived languages, variants of the same root exist, such as honesto or onesto in Italian
Honest, Honesty, Honête (French cognate term), Onesto (Italian cognate).
Honneste is primarily of interest to linguists, historians, and readers studying historical texts. It is not