fidelitas

Indonesian

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin fidēlitās (faithfulness, fidelity).

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Indonesian) IPA(key): /fideˈlitas/ [fi.deˈli.t̪as]
  • Rhymes: -itas
  • Syllabification: fi‧de‧li‧tas

Noun

fidelitas (uncountable)

  1. faithfulness
    Synonym: kesetiaan
  2. fidelity
    1. faithfulness, loyalty
      Synonym: kesetiaan
    2. (chiefly electronics) accuracy, the degree to which a system accurately reproduces an input.

Further reading

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

  • Italo-Romance;
    • Italian: fedeltà
  • Gallo-Romance:
    • Old Catalan: feheltat
    • Old French: feelté (see there for further descendants)
    • Old Occitan: fedaltat, fezeltat
      • Occitan: feséltat
        Provençal: feséutat
  • Ibero-Romance:
    • Old Galician-Portuguese: fialdade, fieldade
      • Galician: fieldade
      • Portuguese: fieldade
    • Old Spanish: fieldad (either semi-learned or dialectal)
      • Spanish: fieldad
  • Borrowings:

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.