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Where does “pieté” come from?

pieté (Middle French) comes 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.

pieté (Middle French): piety

Definitions

  1. piety

Ancestry of “pieté”, step by step

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

Words derived from “pieté”

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