pius

See also: Pius

Kavalan

pius

From Proto-Italic *pwījos, from Proto-Indo-European *puHyós (“purifying”), from *pewH-. Cognate with Old English fǣle (“faithful, trusty, good; dear, beloved”).

pius (feminine pia, neuter pium, comparative magis pius, superlative piissimus, adverb piē); first/second-declension adjective

Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Number	Singular			Plural
Nominative	pius	pia	pium	piī	piae	pia
Genitive	piī	piae	piī	piōrum	piārum	piōrum
Dative	piō	piae	piō	piīs
Accusative	pium	piam	pium	piōs	piās	pia
Ablative	piō	piā	piō	piīs
Vocative	pie	pia	pium	piī	piae	pia

Italian: pio
Old French: pius, piu
- Middle French: pieux
  - French: pieux
    - → Romanian: pios
Old Galician-Portuguese:
- Galician: pío
- Portuguese: pio
Sicilian: pìu
Spanish: pío
→ English: pious

“pius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“pius”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
pius 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)
pius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- a regular, formal war: bellum iustum (pium)
- (ambiguous) to show an affectionate regard for a person's memory: memoriam alicuius pie inviolateque servare
- (ambiguous) to be an earnest worshipper of the gods: deos sancte, pie venerari
pius in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
“pius”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray

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