fidelis
Latin
Etymology
From fidēs (“faith, trust”) + -ēlis.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /fiˈdeː.lis/, [fɪˈd̪eːlʲɪs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /fiˈde.lis/, [fiˈd̪ɛːlis]
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Adjective
fidēlis (neuter fidēle, comparative fidēlior, superlative fidēlissimus, adverb fidēliter); third-declension two-termination adjective
- faithful, loyal
- semper fidelis
- always faithful
- semper fidelis
- true, trustworthy, dependable
Declension
Third-declension two-termination adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | |
| Nominative | fidēlis | fidēle | fidēlēs | fidēlia | |
| Genitive | fidēlis | fidēlium | |||
| Dative | fidēlī | fidēlibus | |||
| Accusative | fidēlem | fidēle | fidēlēs fidēlīs | fidēlia | |
| Ablative | fidēlī | fidēlibus | |||
| Vocative | fidēlis | fidēle | fidēlēs | fidēlia | |
Descendants
- Italo-Romance;
- Italian: fedele
- → Ladin: fedel
- → Sicilian: fideli
- Italian: fedele
- North Italian:
- Friulian: fidêl
- Gallo-Romance:
- Old French: feel, feal, feau, feeil, fial, fiel; fedeil, fetheil (early fedeil)
- Middle French: feal, fieu, foial
- French: féal
- → Early Scots: feal, feale, feall
- Middle Scots: feall, fiall
- Scots: feal, feele (obsolete)
- → English: feal
- Middle Scots: feall, fiall
- Middle French: feal, fieu, foial
- Old French: feel, feal, feau, feeil, fial, fiel; fedeil, fetheil (early fedeil)
- Occitano-Romance:
- Old Catalan: feel
- Old Occitan: fezel
- Occitan: fidèl, fisèl
- West Iberian:
- Navarro-Aragonese: *feel, *fedel
- Aragonese: fel, fiel, hiel, yel
- Old Spanish: fiel, hiel, פִֿײֵאל
- Spanish: fiel
- Old Leonese: *fiel
- Asturian: fiel
- Old Portuguese: fiel
- Galician: fiel
- Portuguese: fiel
- Navarro-Aragonese: *feel, *fedel
- Insular Romance:
- Sardinian: fidele, fideli, fieli
- Borrowings:
- → Catalan: fidel
- → French: fidèle
- → Romanian: fidel
- → Romansch: fidel
Noun
fidēlis m (genitive fidēlis); third declension
- a confidant, trustworthy person
Declension
Third-declension noun (i-stem).
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | fidēlis | fidēlēs |
| Genitive | fidēlis | fidēlium |
| Dative | fidēlī | fidēlibus |
| Accusative | fidēlem | fidēlēs fidēlīs |
| Ablative | fidēle | fidēlibus |
| Vocative | fidēlis | fidēlēs |
Related terms
- fidēlitās
- fīdō
- fīdus
References
- “fidelis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “fidelis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- fidelis 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)
- fidelis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette