fidelity
/fɪˈdɛl.ɪ.ti/ · noun
Meaning
- Faithfulness to one's moral or civic duties.
- Loyalty to one's spouse or partner, including abstention from cheating or extramarital affairs.
- Accuracy, or exact correspondence to some given quality or fact.
- The degree to which a system accurately reproduces an input.
- Faithfulness to God and one's religion.
Etymology / origin
15th century, from Middle English [Term?], from Middle French fidélité, from Latin fidēlitās, from fidēlis (“faithful”), from fidēs (“faith, loyalty”) (English faith), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰidʰ-, zero-grade of *bʰeydʰ- (“to command, to persuade, to trust”) (English bide). Doublet of fealty.
- *bʰidʰ-(ine-pro)→
- fidēlitās(la)→
- fidélité(frm)→
- *bʰeydʰ-(ine-pro)→
- fidelity (English)
- Relations: root, der, der, der
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