faith

名词 n. 副词 adv. 感叹词 intj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A trust or confidence in the intentions or abilities of a person, object, or ideal from prior empirical evidence. countable,uncountable
    — The faithfulness of Old Faithful gives us faith in it.
  2. A conviction about abstractions, ideas, or beliefs, without empirical evidence, experience, or observation. countable,uncountable
    — I have faith that my prayers will be answered.
  3. A religious or spiritual belief system. countable,metonymically,uncountable
    — The Christian faith.
  4. An obligation of loyalty or fidelity and the observance of such an obligation. countable,uncountable
    — He acted in good faith to restore broken diplomatic ties after defeating the incumbent.
  5. Credibility or truth. countable,obsolete,uncountable
    — 1784-1810, William Mitford, History of Greece the faith of the foregoing […] narrative
副词 adv.
  1. Alternative form of in faith (“really, truly”). alt-of,alternative,archaic,not-comparable
    — “How wonderfully,” said Vincent, “your city dignities unloose the tongue: directly a man has been a mayor, he thinks himself qualified for a Tully at least. Faith, Venables asked me one day, what was the Latin for spouting? and I told him, ‘hippomanes, or a raging humour in mayors.’”
感叹词 intj.
  1. Ellipsis of by my faith. abbreviation,alt-of,ellipsis,obsolete

词形变化

faiths plural feith alternative,obsolete feithe alternative,obsolete fayth alternative,obsolete faythe alternative,obsolete faithe alternative,obsolete feith alternative,obsolete feithe alternative,obsolete fayth alternative,obsolete faythe alternative,obsolete faithe alternative,obsolete feith alternative,obsolete feithe alternative,obsolete fayth alternative,obsolete faythe alternative,obsolete faithe alternative,obsolete

词汇关系

近义词
system of religious belief
衍生词
act of faith antifaith article of faith Attic faith bad faith blind faith by my faith cupboard faith faith and begorra faith-based faithbreach faithbreaker faith can move mountains faith-cure faithectomy faithed faitheism faitheist faithful faithfully faithfulness faithhead faith-healer faith healer faith healing faithing faithism faithist faithless faith-lift faithly faith supper faith will move mountains faithwise faithworthy faithy full faith and credit good faith i' faith in faith interfaith intrafaith keep faith keep the faith leap of faith misfaith multi-faith multifaith nonfaith oh me of little faith oh ye of little faith O me of little faith O ye of little faith profession of faith Punic faith seed-faith take on faith unfaith word of faith ye of little faith
相关词
affidavit bide fidelity

词源

词源 1
From Middle English faith (also fay), borrowed from Old French fei, feid, from Latin fidem. Doublet of foy. Displaced native Old English ġelēafa, which was also a word for belief.
* Old French had [θ] as a final devoiced allophone of /ð/ from lenited Latin /d/; this eventually fell silent in the 12th century. The -th of the Middle English forms is most straightforwardly accounted for as a direct borrowing of a French [θ]. However, it has also been seen as arising from alteration of a French form with -d under influence of English abstract nouns in the suffix -th (e.g., truth, ruth, health, etc.), or as a recharacterization of a French form like fay, fey, fei with the same suffix. Compare Champenois fiate, fiaite, showing the same preservation of the final consonant.
词源 2
From Middle English faith (also fay), borrowed from Old French fei, feid, from Latin fidem. Doublet of foy. Displaced native Old English ġelēafa, which was also a word for belief.
* Old French had [θ] as a final devoiced allophone of /ð/ from lenited Latin /d/; this eventually fell silent in the 12th century. The -th of the Middle English forms is most straightforwardly accounted for as a direct borrowing of a French [θ]. However, it has also been seen as arising from alteration of a French form with -d under influence of English abstract nouns in the suffix -th (e.g., truth, ruth, health, etc.), or as a recharacterization of a French form like fay, fey, fei with the same suffix. Compare Champenois fiate, fiaite, showing the same preservation of the final consonant.
词源 3
From Middle English faith (also fay), borrowed from Old French fei, feid, from Latin fidem. Doublet of foy. Displaced native Old English ġelēafa, which was also a word for belief.
* Old French had [θ] as a final devoiced allophone of /ð/ from lenited Latin /d/; this eventually fell silent in the 12th century. The -th of the Middle English forms is most straightforwardly accounted for as a direct borrowing of a French [θ]. However, it has also been seen as arising from alteration of a French form with -d under influence of English abstract nouns in the suffix -th (e.g., truth, ruth, health, etc.), or as a recharacterization of a French form like fay, fey, fei with the same suffix. Compare Champenois fiate, fiaite, showing the same preservation of the final consonant.
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