pius

pius

1. (anatomy) nape

From Proto-Italic *pwījos, from Proto-Indo-European *puHyós (“purifying”), from *pewH-. Cognate with Old English fǣle (“faithful, trusty, good; dear, beloved”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpi.us/, [ˈpi.ʊs]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpi.us/, [ˈpiː.us]

pius (feminine pia, neuter pium, comparative magis pius, superlative piissimus, adverb piē); first/second-declension adjective

1. pious, devout
2. dutiful, loyal
3. good, blessed
4. (Late Latin) holy.

First/second-declension adjective.

• impius

• impius
• piē
• pietās
• piō
• pium

• Italian: pio
• Old French: pius, piu
  • Middle French: pieux
    • French: pieux
      • → Romanian: pios
• Portuguese: pio
• Spanish: pío
• → English: pious

• pius in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• pius in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• pius in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• pius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • a regular, formal war: bellum iustum (pium)
    
  • (ambiguous) to show an affectionate regard for a person's memory: memoriam alicuius pie inviolateque servare
    
  • (ambiguous) to be an earnest worshipper of the gods: deos sancte, pie venerari
    
• pius in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
• pius in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray

English fuse

pius

1. fuse