fidelia

See also: Fidelia

Latin

Etymology 1

According to Pokorny, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰidʰ- (“jar”), with Ancient Greek πίθος (píthos, “large wine jar, cask”) (also πίδος (pídos), φιδάκνη (phidáknē) etc.) and Old Norse biða (“milk pail”) as the only cognates outside of Latin, plus a possible relationship with Latin fiscus (“woven basket”).[1] However, the unexpected variations in Greek,[2] along with the suspiciously limited, noun-only root, could point to substrate or wanderwort origin, which is typical of words for neolithic cultural items in Indo-European.

Noun

fidēlia f (genitive fidēliae); first declension

  1. An earthen vessel, a pot
Declension

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative fidēlia fidēliae
Genitive fidēliae fidēliārum
Dative fidēliae fidēliīs
Accusative fidēliam fidēliās
Ablative fidēliā fidēliīs
Vocative fidēlia fidēliae

References
  1. Pokorny, Julius (1959) “bhidh-”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 1, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 153
  2. Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “πίθος”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 1189–1190
  • de Vaan (2008), page 223, s.v. “fiscus”, doubts the connection between fiscus and fidēlia, but provides no etymology for either.

Adjective

fidēlia

  1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural of fidēlis

Further reading
  • “fidelia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • fidelia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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