Etymology

piously

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Today it means: In a pious manner. Full definition →

English pious ← Latin pius ← Proto-Italic *pīos
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*pewH-
  2. Proto-Italic*pīos
  3. Latinpius
  4. Englishpious
  5. English todaypiously

From pious + -ly.

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