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Where does “piete” come from?

piete (Middle English) comes from Middle French pieté, from Latin pietas, from Latin pīus, from Latin -tās, from Proto-Indo-European -teh₂ts, from Proto-Indo-European -teh₂, from Proto-Indo-European -tós — Creates verbal adjectives from verb stems.

piete (Middle English): mercifulness, compassion, sympathy

Definitions

  1. mercifulness, compassion, sympathy

Ancestry of “piete”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle Frenchpietépiety
2LatinpietasDutiful conduct, sense of duty; Piety,...
3Latinpīus—
4Latin-tās—
5Proto-Indo-European-teh₂tsUsed to form nouns representing state of being
6Proto-Indo-European-teh₂Used to form nouns representing state of being
7Proto-Indo-European-tósCreates verbal adjectives from verb stems

Words derived from “piete”

  • piety
  • pietistic
  • pietism
  • pietist
  • filiopietistic
  • pietistically
  • unpiety
  • piety
  • pietisto
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