Search for: faith
93981 Etymology dictionary, p. firm (adj.).2
… , loyal, faithful" (12c.), from Latin firmus "strong, steadfast, enduring, stable," figuratively "constant, steadfast, trusty, faithful," from suffixed form of PIE root …
93982 Etymology dictionary, p. hearty (adj.).2
late 14c., "courageous; spirited, zealous, from the heart;" also "loyal, faithful; sagacious, wise," from heart (n.) in its broad figurative senses + -y (2). Meaning "affording abundant nourishment" is from 1610s. Related: Heartiness .
93983 Etymology dictionary, p. hi-fi (adj.).2
… sense "faithful reproduction of sound" is from 1878.
93984 Etymology dictionary, p. hog (n.).4
… their faith from eating a certain unnamed part of the hog, who debated which part was intended and in the end managed to exempt the whole of it from the prohibition …
93985 Etymology dictionary, p. homage (n.).2
… one's faithfulness to a feudal lord; feudal allegiance," earlier "body of vassals of a feudal king" (early 13c.), from Old French omage, homage "allegiance or respect …
93986 Etymology dictionary, p. honorable (adj.).2
… good faith" is from 1540s; sense of "acting justly" is from c. 1600.
93987 Etymology dictionary, p. immaculate (adj.).3
… of faith in 1854.
93988 Etymology dictionary, p. immobile (adj.).2
… " (of faith, etc.), from Old French immoble "immovable, fixed, motionless" (13c., Modern French immeuble ), from Latin immobilis "immovable" (also, figuratively, "hard-hearted …
93989 Etymology dictionary, p. implicit (adj.).2
… of faith).
93990 Etymology dictionary, p. infidelity (n.).2
… of faith, unbelief in religion; false belief, paganism;" also (early 15c.) "unfaithfulness or disloyalty to a person" (originally to a sovereign, by 16c. to a lover …
93991 Etymology dictionary, p. infidel (n.).2
… )) + fidelis "faithful" (from PIE root *bheidh- "to trust, confide, persuade").
93992 Etymology dictionary, p. interfaith (adj.).2
1921, from inter- + faith .
93993 Etymology dictionary, p. Islam (n.).3
… the faith include Mahometry (late 15c.), Muhammadism (1610s), Islamism (1747), and Ismaelism (c. 1600; see Ismailite ). The Ismailites were not numerous in Islam, but …
93994 Etymology dictionary, p. Judaism (n.).2
… "Jewish faith, Judaism," literally "Jew-hood" (early 14c.).
93995 Etymology dictionary, p. kathenotheism (n.).2
… ") for "faith in a single god" as distinguished from exclusive belief in only one god, in writings on early Hebrew religion. He also has adevism (from Sanskrit deva …
93996 Etymology dictionary, p. lapse (v.).2
… or faith" is from 1630s. Meaning "become void, revert due to some failure or non-action by the holder" is from 1726. Related: Lapsed; lapses; lapsing .
93997 Etymology dictionary, p. lapsed (adj.).2
of persons, "fallen away from the faith," 1630s, past-participle adjective from lapse (v.). Originally especially to those who denied Christianity during prosecution.
93998 Etymology dictionary, p. lapse (n.).3
Meaning "moral transgression, sin" is from c. 1500; that of "slip of the memory" is 1520s; that of "a falling away from one's faith" is from 1650s.
93999 Etymology dictionary, p. leal (adj.).2
"loyal, faithful, honest, true," c. 1300, lele, surviving from Middle English as Northern English and Scottish form of loyal. But the Land of the leal (Lady Nairne) is Heaven, not Scotland. Related: Lealty .
94000 Etymology dictionary, p. lip-service (n.).2
… genuine faith or desire" (c. 1600); lip-comfort (1630s).