Where does “pieux” come from?

pieux (Middle French) comes from Old French piu, 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.

pieux (Middle French): pious

Definitions

  1. pious

Ancestry of “pieux”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Frenchpiu—
2Latinpīus—
3Latin-tāsty, -dom, -hood, -ness, -ship
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 “pieux”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European -tós →Every word from Latin -tās →Every word from Latin pīus →
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