[extropy-chat] HISTORY: Solv... Open the pod door pls Hal

[Alfio Puglisi]

On Sun, 9 Nov 2003, Brett Paatsch wrote:

>If anyone can find the etymology of the word "belief" or
>"believe" I would be interested. I am also interested in
>seeing if non-English and non-Slavic languages also have
>a word that fills the same space as "belief".

The corresponding Italian word (and, I suspect, also in French, Spanish
and other Latin-derived languages) has more or less the same multiple
meanings as the English one: "I think", "I deduce", "I have faith", and so
on.

Ciao,
Alfio