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

Alfio Puglisi puglisi at arcetri.astro.it
Sun Nov 9 12:16:35 UTC 2003


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




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