adv
Meaning 1
in a pious manner
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
piously
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Sound
Pronunciation
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/ˈpaɪəsli/
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CMU ARPABET: P AY1 AH0 S L IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
adverb
Meaning 2
in a devout and pious manner
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- she was devoutly Catholic
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: devoutly
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *pewH- Proto-Italic *pīosder. Latin piusbor. English pious Middle English -ly English -ly English piously From pious + -ly.
Across languages
Translations
16 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Esperanto: pie — in a pious manner
- Finnish: hurskaasti — in a pious manner
- French: pieusement — in a pious manner
- Georgian: ღვთისმოსავად (ɣvtismosavad) — in a pious manner
- Greek: ευλαβικώς (evlavikós) — in a pious manner
- Italian: piamente — in a pious manner
- Latin: sacrātē — in a pious manner
- Middle English: gostly — in a pious manner
- Norman: pieusement — in a pious manner
- Portuguese: piamente — in a pious manner
- Russian: на́божно (nábožno) — in a pious manner
- Sanskrit: सत्कृत्य (satkṛtya) — in a pious manner
- Serbo-Croatian: на́божно — in a pious manner
- Serbo-Croatian: nábožno — in a pious manner
- Spanish: piadosamente — in a pious manner
- Turkish: dindarca — in a pious manner