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English

Etymology 1

From Old English sæ?þ, from se??an.

Alternative forms

• sayeth
• says (modern form)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s??/, /?se??/, /?se?.??/

Verb

saith

1. (archaic) third-person singular simple present indicative form of say
   • , B. Blake (1836), p.663

     In this life we have but a glimpse of this beauty and happiness; we shall hereafter, as John saith, see him as he is.

   • 1850, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, The Blessed Damozel, ll. 89–90:

     While every leaf that His plumes touch / Saith His Name audibly.

   • 1855, Robert Browning, “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came”, V:

     […] ("since all is o'er," he saith, / "And the blow fallen no grieving can amend;")

Etymology 2

Noun

saith (plural saiths)

1. Alternative form of saithe (“type of fish”)

Anagrams

• Thais, Tisha, has it

Welsh

Etymology

From Middle Welsh seith, from Proto-Brythonic *sei?, from Proto-Celtic *sextam, from Proto-Indo-European *sept??.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sai??/

Numeral

saith

1. seven

References

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present) , “saith”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

English

Alternative forms

• feith, feithe, fayth, faythe, faithe (all obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English faith, fayth, feith, feyth (also fay, fey, fei ("faith"); > English fay (“faith”)), borrowed from Old French fay, fey, fei, feit, feid (“faith”), from Latin fid?s (faith, belief, trust; whence also English fidelity), from f?d? (“trust, confide in”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *b?id?-, zero-grade of *b?eyd?- ("to command, persuade, trust"; whence also English bide).Displaced native Old English geleafa (“faith, religion”), which was a cognate of Dutch geloof (“permission”), which is survived in English leave (“permission”).

Old French had [?] 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 [?]. 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 recharacterisation of a French form like fay, fey, fei with the same suffix, thus making the word equivalent to fay +? -th.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fe??/
• Rhymes: -e??

Noun

faith (countable and uncountable, plural faiths)

1. A trust or confidence in the intentions or abilities of a person, object, or ideal from prior empirical evidence.
2. The process of forming or understanding abstractions, ideas, or beliefs, without empirical evidence, experience, or observation.

3. A religious or spiritual belief system.

   • For we are a nation of believers. Underneath the clamor of building and the rush of our day's pursuits, we are believers in justice and liberty and union, and in our own Union. We believe that every man must someday be free. And we believe in ourselves.
     That is the mistake that our enemies have always made. In my lifetime--in depression and in war--they have awaited our defeat. Each time, from the secret places of the American heart, came forth the faith they could not see or that they could not even imagine. It brought us victory. And it will again.
4. An obligation of loyalty or fidelity and the observance of such an obligation.

5. (obsolete) Credibility or truth.
   • 1784-1810, William Mitford, History of Greece

     the faith of the foregoing […] narrative

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:faith.

Synonyms

• (knowing, without direct observation, based on indirect evidence and experience, that something is true, real, or will happen): belief, confidence, trust, conviction
• (system of religious belief): religion

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

References

• faith at OneLook Dictionary Search
• faith in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
• faith in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• faith in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• hatif