## Meanings
1. Deserving respect and praise.
2. Behaving in a fair, moral, and trustworthy way.
3. Used as a formal title for certain officials, such as ministers or judges.

## Examples
- Helping others without reward is an honorable thing to do.
- He is too honorable to cheat anyone.
- The Honorable Member of Parliament rose to speak.

## Derived Forms
- hon'ble
- honorableness
- honorably
- honourable
- honourably
- unhonorable

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: honourable
- Root: honorable
- Root: honōrābilis

## Etymology
From Middle English honourable, from Old French honorable, honurable, from Latin honōrābilis, from honōrō (“to honour”); cognate with Italian onorabile, Spanish honorable. By surface analysis, honor + -able. In this sense, largely displaced Old English ārfæst.

## AI Etymology
Honorable comes from Middle English honourable, from Old French honorable, honurable, from Latin honōrābilis, from honōrō (“to honour”); cognate with Italian onorabile, Spanish honorable. By surface analysis, honor + -able. In this sense, largely displaced Old English ārfæst. The analysis is mainly morphological: the modern adjectival form is built from the named base and affix. In current use, the main senses are “Deserving respect and praise” and “Behaving in a fair, moral, and trustworthy way”.

## Topics
- Ethics & Social Judgment
- Register & Style

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