The story
- Latin · derived frompietās
- Middle French · derived frompieté
- Middle English · inherited frompiete
- English todaypiety
From Middle English piete, borrowed from Middle French pieté, from Latin pietās. See also the doublets pietà and pity. By surface analysis, pious + -ety.
Words from the same roots
Latinpietās all →
pitypittance
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.