sindonema

Four pieces, and you already know all four. Sin is the reflexive si in the accusative, oneself. Don- is doni, to give. -Em- is the suffix for an inclination or a bent, the one that turns labori into laborema and dormi into dormema. -A makes it an adjective. Read the assembly out loud and the gloss falls out of it: inclined to give oneself. Nothing about the English word devoted tells you that, and nothing about the Latin behind it does either. This is the language showing off, and it is entitled to.

Take one piece off and watch it change. Sindona without the -em- is the same idea stated as a fact rather than a tendency: devoted, in this act, right now. Sindonemo is the noun, devotion as a quality of character. Sindoneco, if you want it, is the state of being so. The seam never moves; only the ending does.

The sin- family is small and worth having whole. A sinteno is an attitude or bearing, literally a holding of oneself. A sinsekvo is a succession, a following of one thing on itself. There is a grimmer one in the same shape for taking one's own life, which you will meet in reading and should recognise rather than build. The pattern is always the same: sin plus a verb root, and the meaning is the verb turned back on the doer.

Not the same as faithful. Fidela is loyal, it stays, it does not betray. Sindonema gives things up. A dog is fidela; a nurse on a double shift is sindonema.