fidélité

French

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin fidēlitās. By surface analysis, fidèle +‎ -ité.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fi.de.li.te/

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Noun

fidélité f (plural fidélités)

1. faithfulness, fidelity

   Antonym: infidélité

   Near-synonym: loyauté

   jurer fidélité ― to pledge one's loyalty, to swear loyalty, to swear allegiance, to swear an oath

Further reading

• “fidélité”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012