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The cognates in the table below share meanings in English and Spanish, but have different pronunciation. Some words entered Middle English and Early Modern Spanish indirectly and at different times. For example, a Latinate word might enter English by way of Old French, but enter Spanish directly from Latin. Such differences can introduce ...
English literature scholar Alan Jacobs has written about the origins and early meaning of the term: [1] It is not, in its origin, a Christian word. The Roman poet Virgil calls his hero pius Aeneas , says that he is a pietāte virum , but we might well mislead readers were we to say "pious Aeneas" or a "pious man."
As an abbreviation (simply "D.V.") it is often found in personal letters (in English) of the early 1900s, employed to generally and piously qualify a given statement about a future planned action, that it will be carried out, so long as God wills it (see James 4:13–15, which encourages this way of speaking); cf. inshallah.
This list contains Germanic elements of the English language which have a close corresponding Latinate form. The correspondence is semantic—in most cases these words are not cognates, but in some cases they are doublets, i.e., ultimately derived from the same root, generally Proto-Indo-European, as in cow and beef, both ultimately from PIE *gʷōus.
Pietas erga parentes (" pietas toward one's parents") was one of the most important aspects of demonstrating virtue. Pius as a cognomen originated as way to mark a person as especially "pious" in this sense: announcing one's personal pietas through official nomenclature seems to have been an innovation of the late Republic, when Quintus Caecilius Metellus Pius claimed it for his efforts to ...
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Vroom – piously (borne by a 16th–17th century family of artists) Vuurst, van de(r) – From the Vuursche (Forest area in the middle of the Netherlands) Wees, de – The Orphan; Wees, van – (oorsprong of the Orphan; Westhuizen, van der – from the houses located in the west; Willems, Willemsen – William's son; Windt, de – the Wind
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