pŭdĭbundus

I. Act., ashamed, shamefaced, bashful, modest (poet. and in post-Aug. prose): matrona, Hor. A. P. 233; Ov. Am. 3, 7, 69: vir, Just. 38, 8, 10: ora, Ov. F. 2, 819; id. M. 6, 604: pudibundus pavo ac maerens (caudā amissā), Plin. 10, 20, 22, § 44.—Poet.: pudibunda dies, Stat. Th. 5, 296.—

II. Pass., of which one should be ashamed, shameful, disgraceful, scandalous, = pudendus: exitia, Val. Fl. 1, 809: genus, Just. 23, 45 (al. pudendum): sales, Auct. Pan. ad Pis. 114.