loyalty

English

Alternative forms

• lealty (archaic, Scotland)
• loialty (archaic)
• loyaltie (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English loialte, borrowed from Old French loialte, loiauté (Modern loyauté) from loial + -té.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɔɪəlti/

• Audio (US)

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• Hyphenation: loy‧al‧ty

Noun

loyalty (countable and uncountable, plural loyalties)

1. The state of being loyal; fidelity.

   brand loyalty

2. Faithfulness or devotion to some person, cause or nation.

   He showed loyalty to his local football club after successive relegations.

   • 2021 January 5, J. Michael Luttig, Twitter‎^[1], archived from the original on 05 January 2021; republished as Washington Post‎^[2], 2021 January 5:

     The only responsibility and power of the Vice President under the Constitution is to faithfully count the electoral college votes as they have been cast.
     The Constitution does not empower the Vice President to alter in any way the votes that have been cast, either by rejecting certain of them or otherwise.
     How the Vice President discharges this constitutional obligation is not a question of his loyalty to the President any more than it would be a test of a President’s loyalty to his Vice President
     whether the President assented to the impeachment and prosecution of his Vice President for the commission of high crimes while in office.
     No President and no Vice President would—or should—consider either event as a test of political loyalty of one to the other.
     And if either did, he would have to accept that political loyalty must yield to constitutional obligation.
     Neither the President nor the Vice President has any higher loyalty than to the Constitution.

Synonyms

• trueness

Antonyms

• disloyalty

Derived terms

• brand loyalty
• loyalty card
• loyalty penalty
• loyalty tax

Translations

the state of being loyal; fidelity

• Albanian: besnikëri (sq) f
• Arabic: وَفَاء m (wafāʔ), إِخْلَاص (ar) m (ʔiḵlāṣ)
• Armenian: հավատարմություն (hy) (havatarmutʻyun)
• Asturian: llealtá f
• Azerbaijani: vəfa (az), sədaqət (az), sadiqlik
• Belarusian: ве́рнасць f (vjérnascʹ), лая́льнасць f (lajálʹnascʹ), адда́насць f (addánascʹ)
• Bulgarian: вя́рност (bg) f (vjárnost), лоя́лност (bg) f (lojálnost), пре́даност (bg) f (prédanost)
• Burmese: သစ္စာ (my) (sacca)
• Catalan: lleialtat (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 忠誠／忠诚 (zh) (zhōngchéng), 忠心 (zh) (zhōngxīn)

• Czech: věrnost (cs) f
• Danish: loyalitet c
• Dutch: trouw (nl) m, loyaliteit (nl) f
• Esperanto: fideleco
• Estonian: ustavus, lojaalsus
• Finnish: lojaalius (fi), uskollisuus (fi), luotettavuus (fi)
• French: loyauté (fr) f
• Friulian: lealtât f
• Galician: lealdade (gl) f
• Georgian: ერთგულება (ertguleba), თავდადება (tavdadeba), ლოიალურობა (loialuroba)
• German: Treue (de) f, Loyalität (de) f
• Hebrew: נֶאֱמָנוּת (he) f (ne'emanút)
• Hindi: निष्ठा (hi) f (niṣṭhā), वफ़ा f (vafā)
• Hungarian: hűség (hu)
• Icelandic: trúmennska f
• Indonesian: kesetiaan (id)
• Irish: dílseacht f
• Italian: lealtà (it) f, fedeltà (it) f
• Japanese: 忠誠心 (ちゅうせいしん, chūseishin), 忠誠 (ja) (ちゅうせい, chūsei), 忠義 (ja) (ちゅうぎ, chūgi)
• Kazakh: адалдық (adaldyq)
• Khmer: ចិត្តភក្តី (cət phĕəʼktəy), ភក្តីភាព (phĕəʼkdəyphiəp)
• Korean: 충실 (chungsil), 충성 (ko) (chungseong), 충성심 (chungseongsim)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: dilsozî (ku), sozdarî (ku), wefa (ku), sedaqet (ku)

• Kven: lojaliteetti
• Kyrgyz: берилгендик (ky) (berilgendik)
• Latin: fides f
• Latvian: lojalitāte (lv) f, uzticība f
• Lithuanian: ištikimybė f, lojalumas m
• Macedonian: верност f (vernost), лојалност f (lojalnost), преданост f (predanost)
• Malay: kesetiaan
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: lojalitet m

  Nynorsk: lojalitet m

• Occitan: leialtat (oc) f
• Old English: trēow f
• Pashto: وفا f (wafã), وفاداري f (wafādārí)
• Persian: وفاداری (fa) (vafâdâri), وفا (fa) (vafâ)
• Polish: lojalność (pl) f, wierność (pl) f
• Portuguese: lealdade (pt) f
• Romanian: loialitate (ro) f
• Russian: ве́рность (ru) f (vérnostʹ), лоя́льность (ru) f (lojálʹnostʹ), пре́данность (ru) f (prédannostʹ)
• Scots: lealty
• Scottish Gaelic: dìlseachd f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ве́рно̄ст f, вје́рно̄ст f, о̏да̄но̄ст f

  Roman: vérnōst (sh) f, vjérnōst (sh) f, ȍdānōst (sh) f

• Sicilian: lialtà f, lialtati f
• Slovak: vernosť f
• Slovene: vdanost f, zvestoba (sl) f
• Spanish: lealtad (es) f
• Swedish: lojalitet (sv) c, trofasthet (sv) c
• Tajik: вафодорӣ (vafodorī), вафо (tg) (vafo)
• Thai: ความซื่อสัตย์ (th) (kwaam-sʉ̂ʉ-sàt), ความซื่อ (th) (kwaam-sʉ̂ʉ), ความภักดี (kwaam-pák-dii)
• Turkish: sadakat (tr), vefa (tr), bağlılık (tr)
• Turkmen: wepalylyk
• Ukrainian: ві́рність f (vírnistʹ), лоя́льність f (lojálʹnistʹ), ві́дданість f (víddanistʹ)
• Urdu: وفا f (vafā), وفاداری f (vafādārī)
• Uyghur: ۋاپادارلىق (wapadarliq), سادىقلىق (sadiqliq)
• Uzbek: sadoqat (uz), vafo (uz), sodiqlik (uz), vafodorlik (uz)
• Vietnamese: lòng trung thành
• Welsh: gwrogaeth f

faithfulness or devotion to some person, cause or nation

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 诚信 (zh) (chéngxìn), 忠信 (zh) (zhōngxìn), 丹心 (zh) (dānxīn)

• Danish: loyalitet c
• Finnish: lojaalius (fi), uskollisuus (fi)
• French: loyauté (fr) f
• Georgian: ერთგულება (ertguleba)
• German: Treue (de) f, Loyalität (de) f
• Irish: dílseacht f
• Italian: lealtà (it) f
• Korean: 충성 (ko) (chungseong)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: lojalitet m

  Nynorsk: lojalitet m

• Old English: trēow f
• Polish: lojalność (pl) f
• Portuguese: lealdade (pt) f
• Russian: ве́рность (ru) f (vérnostʹ), лоя́льность (ru) f (lojálʹnostʹ)
• Scottish Gaelic: dìlseachd f
• Spanish: lealtad (es) m
• Swedish: lojalitet (sv) c, trofasthet (sv) c
• Thai: please add this translation if you can

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Georgian: ^{(please verify)} ლოიალობა (loialoba)

See also

• allegiance
• fealty
• fidelity