fidelitas

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Latin

Etymology

From fidēlis (“faithful”) +‎ -tās, from fidēs (“faith”).

Pronunciation

Noun

fidēlitās f (genitive fidēlitātis); third declension

  1. faithfulness, fidelity
  2. (Medieval Latin) homage, fealty (as distinct from fidēs, religious faith)

Declension

Third-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative fidēlitās fidēlitātēs
genitive fidēlitātis fidēlitātum
dative fidēlitātī fidēlitātibus
accusative fidēlitātem fidēlitātēs
ablative fidēlitāte fidēlitātibus
vocative fidēlitās fidēlitātēs

Descendants

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.
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