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Adverb [English]

IPA: /ˈpaɪəsli/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-piously.wav [Southern-England] Forms: more piously [comparative], most piously [superlative]
Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *pewH- Proto-Italic *pīosder. Latin piusbor. English pious Middle English -ly English -ly English piously From pious + -ly. Etymology templates: {{ety|en|:af|pious|-ly<id:adverbial>|text=+|tree=1}} Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *pewH- Proto-Italic *pīosder. Latin piusbor. English pious Middle English -ly English -ly English piously [Appendix:Glossary#loanword|Borrowed]] from", "terms" : [ { "children" : [ { "keyword_abbrev" : "der.", "keyword_label" : "Derived from", "terms" : [ { "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "id" : "to be clean", "children" : [ ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Proto-Indo-European", "term" : "*pewH-", "lang" : "ine-pro" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "lang_name" : "Proto-Italic", "term" : "*pīos", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "itc-pro" } ], "keyword" : "derived" } ], "lang_name" : "Latin", "term" : "pius", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "la" } ], "keyword" : "bor" } ], "lang_name" : "English", "term" : "pious", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "en" }, { "id" : "adverbial", "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "id" : "adverbial", "children" : [ ], "status" : "missing", "lang_name" : "Middle English", "term" : "-ly", "lang" : "enm" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "English", "term" : "-ly", "lang" : "en" } ], "keyword_label" : "From", "is_group" : true, "keyword" : "affix" } ], "lang_name" : "English", "term" : "piously", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "en" }" data-lang="en" data-title="piously"> From pious + -ly. Head templates: {{en-adv}} piously (comparative more piously, superlative most piously)
  1. in a pious manner Derived forms: unpiously Translations (in a pious manner): pie (Esperanto), hurskaasti (Finnish), pieusement (French), ღვთისმოსავად (ɣvtismosavad) (Georgian), ευλαβικώς (evlavikós) (Greek), piamente (Italian), sacrātē (Latin), gostly (Middle English), pieusement (Norman), piamente (Portuguese), на́божно (nábožno) (Russian), सत्कृत्य (satkṛtya) (Sanskrit), на́божно [Cyrillic] (Serbo-Croatian), nábožno [Latin] (Serbo-Croatian), piadosamente (Spanish), dindarca (Turkish)
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      "lang": "Spanish",
      "lang_code": "es",
      "sense": "in a pious manner",
      "word": "piadosamente"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "lang_code": "tr",
      "sense": "in a pious manner",
      "word": "dindarca"
    }
  ],
  "word": "piously"
}

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