fidelitas

Latin

From fidēlis (“faithful”) +‎ -tās, from fidēs (“faith”).

fidēlitās f (genitive fidēlitātis); third declension

Third-declension noun.

Italo-Romance;
- Italian: fedeltà
Gallo-Romance:
- Old French: fealté, feelté (early fedieltad)
  - Middle French: féauté
    - French: féauté (archaic)
  - Old Lorrain: fauteit
  - Norman: fiauté
- → Middle English: feaute, fealtye, feawte, feute, feutee, fewte, fewtee, fewtee, ffeute, foialte
  - English: fealty (/l/ restored due to learned influence)
  - Middle Scots: fewte
    - ⇒ Scots: feauto
- → Middle Dutch: fealteit
- → Old Spanish: fealdad
  - Spanish: fealdad
Occitano-Romance:
- Old Catalan: feheltat
- Old Occitan: fedaltat, fezeltat
  - Occitan: feséltat
    Provençal: feséutat
West Iberian:
- Old Spanish: fieldad (either semi-learned or dialectal)
  - Spanish: fieldad
- Old Galician-Portuguese: fialdade, fieldade
  - Galician: fieldade
  - Portuguese: fieldade
Borrowings:
- → Catalan: fidelitat
- → Middle English: fidelite
  - English: fidelity
- → Middle French: fidélité
  - French: fidélité
    - → Romanian: fidelitate
- → Portuguese: fidelidade
- → Spanish: fidelidad

“fidelitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“fidelitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
fidelitas in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
fidelitas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

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