Where does “religiouse” come from?
religiouse (Middle English) comes from Anglo-Norman religieus, from Latin religiosus, from Latin religio, from Latin relego, from Latin lego, from Latin lex, from Proto-Italic lēg-, from Proto-Indo-European leǵ-s — to gather, collect, with derivatives meaning to...
Ancestry of “religiouse”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Anglo-Norman | religieus | religious; monk |
| 2 | Latin | religiosus | pious, devout, religious; scrupulous; sacred,... |
| 3 | Latin | religio | scrupulousness, conscientious exactness; piety,... |
| 4 | Latin | relego | I gather, collect again, recover; I travel,... |
| 5 | Latin | lego | I choose, select, appoint; I collect, gather,... |
| 6 | Latin | lex | a proposition or motion for a law made to the... |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | lēg- | — |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | leǵ-s | — |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | leǵ- | to gather, collect, with derivatives meaning to... |
Words derived from “religiouse”
- religious
- religiously
- religiosity
- nonreligious
- interreligious
- religiousness
- antireligious
- multireligious
- ethnoreligious
- socioreligious
- unreligious
- quasireligious
- semireligious
- politicoreligious
- areligious
- pseudoreligious
- magicoreligious
- intrareligious
- ultrareligious
- postreligious
- hyperreligiosity
- parareligious
- monoreligious
- nonreligiously