piety

See also: pięty

English

Alternative forms

• pietie (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English piete, borrowed from Middle French pieté, from Latin pietās. See also the doublets pietà and pity.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpaɪ.ɪ.ti/

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• Rhymes: -aɪɪti
• Hyphenation: pi‧e‧ty

Noun

piety (countable and uncountable, plural pieties)

1. (uncountable, religion) Reverence and devotion to God.

   Colleen's piety led her to make sacrifices that most people would not have made.

2. (uncountable) Similar reverence to one's parents and family or to one's country.
3. (countable) A devout act or thought.
4. (countable) A belief that is accepted unthinkingly and with undue reverence.

Derived terms

• filial piety

Related terms

• pious
• pietà

Translations

reverence and devotion to God

• Arabic: تَقْوَى‎ (taqwā)
• Armenian: բարեպաշտություն (hy) (barepaštutʿyun)
• Bulgarian: набожност (bg) (nabožnost)
• Catalan: pietat (ca) f
• Chinese: Mandarin: 虔诚 (zh) (Qiánchéng)
• Czech: zbožnost f
• Dutch: vroomheid (nl)
• Esperanto: pieco
• Finnish: hurskaus (fi)
• French: piété (fr) f
• Galician: piedade (gl) f
• Georgian: ღვთისმოსაობა (ɣvtismosaoba), ღვთისმოშიშობა (ɣvtismošišoba)
• German: Frömmigkeit (de) f
• Greek: ευσέβεια (el) f (efséveia)

  Ancient Greek: εὐσέβεια f (eusébeia)

• Hungarian: vallásosság (hu)

• Irish: crábhadh m, cráifeacht f, beannaíocht f
• Italian: pietà (it)
• Japanese: 篤信 (ja) (とくしん, tokushin)
• Latvian: pietāte f
• Manx: craueeaght f
• Maori: whakaponotanga
• Occitan: pietat (oc) f
• Polish: pobożność (pl) f, bogobojność (pl) f
• Portuguese: piedade (pt) f
• Romanian: evlavie (ro), pietate (ro)
• Russian: на́божность (ru) (nábožnostʹ), благоче́стие (ru) n (blagočéstije)
• Scottish Gaelic: cràbhadh m
• Spanish: piedad (es) f
• Swedish: fromhet (sv) c
• Turkish: dindarlık (tr), sofuluk (tr), takva (tr), züht (tr)
• Yiddish: פֿרומקייט‎ f (frumkeyt)

reverence to one's family

• Arabic: بِرّ‎ m (birr)
• Finnish: kunnioitus (fi)
• German: Pietät (de) f

• Greek: σεβασμός (el) m (sevasmós)
• Japanese: 敬愛 (ja) (けいあい, kēai)
• Turkish: saygı (tr), hürmet (tr), ihtiram (tr)

devout act or thought

• Arabic: تُقًى‎ m (tuqan)

• Hungarian: áhítat (hu)

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 Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• French: ^{(please verify)} piété (fr) f
• Italian: ^{(please verify)} pietà (it) f
• Korean: ^{(please verify)} 경건 (ko) (gyeonggeon)

• Mandarin: ^{(please verify)} 虔誠 (zh), ^{(please verify)} 虔诚 (zh)
• Spanish: ^{(please verify)} piedad (es) f

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Middle English

Noun

piety

1. Alternative form of piete