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English

Etymology

From Medieval Latin affidavit (“he has sworn”), the third person singular perfect tense of affido (“swear”), from f?d?, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *b?eyd?- (“to command, to persuade, to trust”). Cognate to fidelity and faith (same Latin root), but not to affirm (shared Latin ad- prefix, but different Latin and Proto-Indo-European roots).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?æf??de?v?t/
• Rhymes: -e?v?t

Noun

affidavit (plural affidavits)

1. (law) A signed document wherein an affiant makes a sworn statement.

Translations

Further reading

• affidavit on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.fi.da.vit/

Noun

affidavit m (plural affidavits)

1. affidavit

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /af.fi??da?.u?it/, [äf?i??d?ä?u??t?]
• (Vulgar) IPA^(key): /af.fi?da?.?it/, [af?i?da???t]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /af.fi?da.vit/, [?f?i?d???vit?]

Verb

aff?d?vit

1. third-person singular perfect active indicative of aff?d? (“to swear”)

Portuguese

Noun

affidavit m (plural affidavits)

1. (law) affidavit (legal, signed document wherein an affiant makes a sworn statement)

English

Etymology

15th century, from Middle English [Term?], from Middle French fidélité, from Latin fid?lit?s, from fid?lis (“faithful”), from fid?s (“faith, loyalty”) (English faith), from Proto-Indo-European *b?id?-, zero-grade of *b?eyd?- (“to command, to persuade, to trust”) (English bide). Doublet of fealty.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f??d?l.?.ti/, /fa??d?l.?.ti/

Noun

fidelity (countable and uncountable, plural fidelities)

1. Faithfulness to one's duties.

2. Loyalty to one's spouse or partner, including abstention from extramarital affairs.
3. Accuracy, or exact correspondence to some given quality or fact.
4. The degree to which a system accurately reproduces an input.
   • 2003, Proceedings of the Twenty-ninth International Conference on Very Large Databases, Berlin, Germany, 9-12 September, 2003, page 58:

     By placing them closer to the source, we can reduce the number of messages in the system and this in turn is likely to improve the fidelity of the system.

Quotations

• 2004, High-Fidelity Medical Imaging Displays (Aldo Badano, Michael J. Flynn, Jerzy Kanicki, ?ISBN
• 2008, David L. Nelson, Michael M. Cox, Absolute Ultimate Guide for Lehninger Principles of Biochemistry ?ISBN, page S-305:

  The isoleucyl-tRNA synthetase has a proofreading function that ensures the fidelity of the aminoacylation reaction, but the histidyl-tRNA synthetase lacks such a proofreading function.

Antonyms

• infidelity

Derived terms

• fidelitous
• fidelity bond
• high fidelity

Related terms

• affidavit
• bide
• faith

Translations

Further reading

• fidelity in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• fidelity in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.