religious
English
/ɹɪ.ˈlɪ.d͡ʒəs/
adj
Definitions
- Concerning religion.
- Committed to the practice or adherence of religion.
- Highly dedicated, as one would be to a religion.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English religiouse derived from religieus derived from Old French religious derived from Latin religiōsus (conscientious, religious, superstitious).
Origin
Latin
religiōsus
Gloss
conscientious, religious, superstitious
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- antireligious English
- antireligiousness English
- areligious English
- areligiously English
- ethnoreligious English
- ethnoreligiously English
- hyperreligiosity English
- interreligious English
- intrareligious English
- magicoreligious English
- monoreligious English
- multireligious English
- nonreligious English
- nonreligiously English
- nonreligiousness English
- parareligious English
- politicoreligious English
- postreligious English
- prereligious English
- pseudoreligious English
- quasireligious English
- religiosity English
- religiously English
- religiousness English
- religiousy English
- semireligious English
- socioreligious English
- socioreligiously English
- superreligious English
- suprareligious English
- ultrareligious English
- unreligious English
- unreligiously English
- religiositas Latin
- religiōsus Latin
- areligiös German
- freireligiös German
- religiös German
- religioso Italian
- religieux French
- религио́зный Russian
- религиозность Russian
- religioso Spanish, Castilian
- religioso Portuguese
- religiouse Middle English
- religieus Old French
- religious Old French
- religiós Catalan, Valencian
- religieus xno
- religiousy
- areligious
- religiosity
- religiously
- unreligious
- areligiously
- nonreligious
- prereligious
- religiousness
- antireligious
- unreligiously
- monoreligious
- postreligious
- parareligious
- semireligious
- superreligious
- interreligious
- suprareligious
- multireligious
- ethnoreligious
- socioreligious
- nonreligiously
- intrareligious
- ultrareligious
- quasireligious
- pseudoreligious
- magicoreligious
- nonreligiousness
- socioreligiously
- ethnoreligiously
- hyperreligiosity
- antireligiousness
- politicoreligious