fidelitas
Latin
Etymology
From fidēlis (“faithful”) + -tās, from fidēs (“faith”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /fiˈdeː.li.taːs/, [fɪˈd̪eːlʲɪt̪äːs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /fiˈde.li.tas/, [fiˈd̪ɛːlit̪äs]
Noun
fidēlitās f (genitive fidēlitātis); third declension
- faithfulness, fidelity
- (Medieval Latin) homage, fealty (as distinct from fidēs, religious faith)
Declension
Third-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | fidēlitās | fidēlitātēs |
| Genitive | fidēlitātis | fidēlitātum |
| Dative | fidēlitātī | fidēlitātibus |
| Accusative | fidēlitātem | fidēlitātēs |
| Ablative | fidēlitāte | fidēlitātibus |
| Vocative | fidēlitās | fidēlitātēs |
Related terms
- fidēlis
- fidēs
- fīdō
- fīdus
Descendants
- Italo-Romance;
- Italian: fedeltà
- Gallo-Romance:
- Old French: fealté, feelté (early fedieltad)
- Middle French: féauté
- French: féauté (archaic)
- Old Lorrain: fauteit
- Norman: fiauté
- Middle French: féauté
- → Middle English: feaute, fealtye, feawte, feute, feutee, fewte, fewtee, fewtee, ffeute, foialte
- English: fealty (/l/ restored due to learned influence)
- Middle Scots: fewte
- ⇒ Scots: feauto
- → Middle Dutch: fealteit
- → Old Spanish: fealdad
- Spanish: fealdad
- Old French: fealté, feelté (early fedieltad)
- Occitano-Romance:
- Old Catalan: feheltat
- Old Occitan: fedaltat, fezeltat
- Occitan: feséltat
- Provençal: feséutat
- Occitan: feséltat
- West Iberian:
- Old Spanish: fieldad (either semi-learned or dialectal)
- Spanish: fieldad
- Portuguese: fieldade
- Old Spanish: fieldad (either semi-learned or dialectal)
- Borrowings:
- → Catalan: fidelitat
- → Middle English: fidelite
- English: fidelity
- → Middle French: fidélité
- French: fidélité
- → Romanian: fidelitate
- 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