loyalty

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Alternative formsEdit

• (archaic) loialty
• (archaic, Scotland) Lealty

EtymologyEdit

From Middle English *loialte, from Old French loialte, loiauté (Modern loyauté) from loial + -té

PronunciationEdit

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NounEdit

loyalty ‎(countable and uncountable, plural loyalties)

1. The state of being loyal; fidelity.
2. Faithfulness or devotion to some person, cause or nation.

SynonymsEdit

• trueness

AntonymsEdit

• disloyalty

TranslationsEdit

the state of being loyal; fidelity

• Asturian: llealtá f
• Catalan: lleialtat (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 忠誠 (zh), 忠诚 (zh) ‎(zhōngchéng), 忠心 (zh) ‎(zhōngxīn)

• Danish: loyalitet c
• Esperanto: fideleco
• Finnish: lojaalius (fi), uskollisuus (fi), luotettavuus (fi)
• French: loyauté (fr) f
• Friulian: lealtât f
• Galician: lealdade (gl) f
• Georgian: ერთგულება ‎(ertguleba), თავდადება ‎(tavdadeba), ლოიალურობა ‎(loialuroba)
• German: Treue (de) f, Loyalität (de) f
• Hindi: निष्ठा (hi) ‎(niṣṭhā)
• Hungarian: hűség (hu)
• Irish: dílseacht f

• Italian: lealtà (it) f
• Japanese: 忠誠心 ‎(ちゅうせいしん, chūseishin)
• Latvian: lojalitāte (lv) f
• Norwegian: loyalitet m
• Polish: lojalność (pl) f
• Portuguese: lealdade (pt) f
• Romanian: loialitate (ro) f
• Russian: ве́рность (ru) f ‎(vérnostʹ), лоя́льность (ru) f ‎(lojálʹnostʹ), пре́данность (ru) f ‎(prédannostʹ)
• Scots: lealty
• Scottish Gaelic: dìlseachd f
• Sicilian: lialtà f, f
• Spanish: lealtad (es) f
• Swedish: lojalitet (sv) c, trofasthet c

faithfulness or devotion to some person, cause or nation

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Danish: loyalitet c
• Finnish: lojaalius (fi), uskollisuus (fi)
• French: loyauté (fr) f
• Georgian: ერთგულება ‎(ertguleba)
• German: Treue (de) f, Loyalität (de) f
• Irish: dílseacht f

• Italian: lealtà (it) f
• Korean: 충성 ‎(chungseong)
• Norwegian: loyalitet m
• Portuguese: lealdade (pt) f
• Russian: ве́рность (ru) f ‎(vérnostʹ), лоя́льность (ru) f ‎(lojálʹnostʹ)
• Scottish Gaelic: dìlseachd f
• Spanish: lealtad (es) m
• Swedish: lojalitet (sv) c, trofasthet c

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Help:How to check translations.

Translations to be checked

• Georgian: ^{(please verify)} ლოიალობა ‎(loialoba)

Derived termsEdit

• loyalty card

See alsoEdit

• allegiance
• fealty
• fidelity