Proto-Italic

*pīos

‘pious, devout’

Every word has its own definition in its root. These English words share one: Proto-Italic *pīos.

9 English words in this record descend from Proto-Italic *pīos, most familiar first.

• pious ← pius
• impious ← impius ← pius
• expiation ← expiātiō ← expiō ← piō ← *pīāō
• impiety ← impieté ← impietas ← pietas ← pius
• expiator ← expiō ← piō ← *pīāō
• piaculative ← piaculum ← piō ← *pīāō
• piacle ← piāculum ← piō ← *pīāō
• piacular ← piaculaire ← piacularis ← piaculum ← piō
• piaculum ← piō ← *pīāō

Etymograph / Proto-Italic *pīos