Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗adj
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryOf or pertaining to piety, exhibiting piety, devout, god-fearing. · Relating to religion or religious works. · Insisting on or making a show of one's own virtue, especially in comparison to others; sanctimonious, condescending, judgmental.
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *pewH- Proto-Italic *pīosder. Latin piusbor. English pious Borrowed from Latin pīus (“pious, dutiful, blessed, kind, devout”), from Proto-Indo-European *pewH- (“pure”). Cognate with Old English fǣle (“faithful, trusty, good; dear, beloved”). More at feal.
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