fidelitas
Latin
Etymology
From fidēlis (“faithful”) + -tās, from fidēs (“faith”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [fɪˈdeː.lɪ.taːs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [fiˈd̪ɛː.li.t̪as]
Noun
fidēlitās f (genitive fidēlitātis); third declension
- faithfulness, fidelity
- (Medieval Latin) homage, fealty (as distinct from fidēs, religious faith)
Declension
Third-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | fidēlitās | fidēlitātēs |
| genitive | fidēlitātis | fidēlitātum |
| dative | fidēlitātī | fidēlitātibus |
| accusative | fidēlitātem | fidēlitātēs |
| ablative | fidēlitāte | fidēlitātibus |
| vocative | fidēlitās | fidēlitātēs |
Related terms
Descendants
- Italo-Romance;
- Italian: fedeltà
- Gallo-Romance:
- Old Catalan: feheltat
- Old French: feelté (see there for further descendants)
- Old Occitan: fedaltat, fezeltat
- Occitan: feséltat
- Provençal: feséutat
- Occitan: feséltat
- Ibero-Romance:
- Old Galician-Portuguese: fialdade, fieldade
- Galician: fieldade
- Portuguese: fieldade
- Old Spanish: fieldad (either semi-learned or dialectal)
- Spanish: fieldad
- Old Galician-Portuguese: fialdade, fieldade
- Borrowings:
- → Catalan: fidelitat
- → Italian: fidelità
- → Middle French: fidélité
- French: fidélité
- → Romanian: fidelitate
- → Middle English: fidelite
- English: fidelity
- French: fidélité
- → Portuguese: fidelidade
- → Spanish: fidelidad
References
- “fidelitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “fidelitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- "fidelitas", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- fidelitas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.