Translation
pious, devout
Word origin
From Latin pius, meaning dutiful and loyal to gods, family and country rather than devout in the narrow modern sense. Esperanto picked it up through the Romance descendants such as Italian pio. English piety and pity are the same Latin word arriving twice by different roads.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- pius
- English cognates
- pious, piety, pity
Examples
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The old woman is devout and prays every morning.
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He is not religious, but he respects the holy days.
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The devout girl sang in the church every Sunday.
is warmer than English pious, which has picked up a sneer that the Esperanto word has not. It describes someone who takes their faith seriously and is not a comment on whether they overdo it; for that you would reach for bigota or say . Two collocations worth knowing: deziro is a wish nobody expects to come true, and is a memory held with reverence, so the adjective reaches beyond religion in both.
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