fidelia
See also: Fidelia
Latin edit
Etymology 1 edit
According to Pokorny, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰidʰ- (“jar”), with Ancient Greek πίθος (píthos, “large wine jar, cask”) (also πίδος (pídos), φιδάκνη (phidáknē) etc.) and Old Norse biða (“milk pail”) as the only cognates outside of Latin, plus a possible relationship with Latin fiscus (“woven basket”).[1] However, the unexpected variations in Greek,[2] along with the suspiciously limited, noun-only root, could point to substrate or wanderwort origin, which is typical of words for neolithic cultural items in Indo-European.
Noun edit
fidēlia f (genitive fidēliae); first declension
Declension edit
First-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | fidēlia | fidēliae |
| Genitive | fidēliae | fidēliārum |
| Dative | fidēliae | fidēliīs |
| Accusative | fidēliam | fidēliās |
| Ablative | fidēliā | fidēliīs |
| Vocative | fidēlia | fidēliae |
References edit
- ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) “bhidh-”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 1, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 153
- ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “πίθος”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 1189–1190
- de Vaan (2008), page 223, s.v. “fiscus”, doubts the connection between fiscus and fidēlia, but provides no etymology for either.
Etymology 2 edit
Adjective edit
fidēlia
Further reading edit
- “fidelia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- fidelia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.