Ignominious means bringing public shame and humiliation. An ignominious defeat, an ignominious end, ignominiously sacked.
The public part is essential, since an ignominious defeat is one everybody watched. The Latin means without a name, from the loss of good repute rather than of the name itself.
1adjectiveignominiousBringing public shame and humiliation.
“After the scandal, the minister made an ignominious exit through the back door.”
ignominious is a quality.
Latin ignominiosus comes from ignominia, disgrace, from in-, not, plus nomen, a name or repute.
Latin
ignōminiōsus
Middle French
ignominieux
Middle English
ignominious — disgraceful, shameful
English, today
ignominious
Built from
From Middle English ignominious (“disgraceful, shameful”), from Middle French ignominieux, from Latin ignōminiōsus. From Late Middle English ignominious (“disgraceful, shameful”), from Middle French ignominieux (modern French ignominieux), or from its Latin ignōminiōsus (“disgraced; disgraceful, shameful, ignominious”), from ignōminia (“disgrace, dishonour, shame, ignominy”) + -ōsus. Ignōminia is derived from ig- (variant of in- + nōmen (“name; good name, reputation”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European h₁nómn̥ (“name”)) + -ia. by surface analysis, ignominy + -ious.
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