faith

English

/feɪθ/

noun
Definitions
  • A trust or confidence in the intentions or abilities of a person, object, or ideal from prior empirical evidence.
  • The process of forming or understanding abstractions, ideas, or beliefs, without empirical evidence, experience or observation.
  • A religious or spiritual belief system.
  • An obligation of loyalty or fidelity and the observance of such an obligation.
  • (obsolete) Credibility or truth.

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English faith borrowed from Old French fay derived from Latin fidēs (chord, lyre) derived from Proto-Indo-European *bʰidʰ- (barrel, bucket, pot, command) affix from English fay (faith, fairy, fated, doomed) root from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeydʰ- (persuade, trust, command, confide with, agree, take trust, be convinced, encourage, constrain).

Origin

Proto-Indo-European

*bʰeydʰ-

Gloss

persuade, trust, command, confide with, agree, take trust, be convinced, encourage, constrain

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