fidelity

English

/fɪˈdɛl.ɪ.ti/

noun
Definitions
  • Faithfulness to one's duties.
  • Loyalty to one's spouse or partner, including abstention from extramarital affairs.
  • Accuracy, or exact correspondence to some given quality or fact.
  • The degree to which a system accurately reproduces an input.

Etymology

Derived from Middle French fidélité derived from Latin fidēlitās (faithfulness) derived from Proto-Indo-European *bʰidʰ- (barrel, bucket, pot, command), *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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