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Yes. The word pietas is a Scrabble US word. The word pietas is worth 8 points in Scrabble:

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6-letter words (3 found)

PASTIE,PETSAI,PIETAS,

5-letter words (20 found)

ASPIE,PAISE,PASTE,PATES,PEATS,PIETA,PIETS,PISTE,PITAS,SEPIA,SEPTA,SPAIT,SPATE,SPEAT,SPITE,STIPA,STIPE,TAPES,TAPIS,TEPAS,

4-letter words (48 found)

AITS,APES,APSE,APTS,ATES,EAST,EATS,ETAS,ITAS,PAIS,PASE,PAST,PATE,PATS,PEAS,PEAT,PEST,PETS,PIAS,PIES,PIET,PISE,PITA,PITS,SATE,SATI,SEAT,SEPT,SETA,SIPE,SITE,SPAE,SPAT,SPET,SPIE,SPIT,STAP,STEP,STIE,TAES,TAIS,TAPE,TAPS,TASE,TEAS,TEPA,TIES,TIPS,

3-letter words (43 found)

AIS,AIT,APE,APT,ASP,ATE,ATS,EAS,EAT,EST,ETA,ITA,ITS,PAS,PAT,PEA,PES,PET,PIA,PIE,PIS,PIT,PSI,PST,SAE,SAI,SAP,SAT,SEA,SEI,SET,SIP,SIT,SPA,TAE,TAI,TAP,TAS,TEA,TES,TIE,TIP,TIS,

2-letter words (17 found)

AE,AI,AS,AT,EA,ES,ET,IS,IT,PA,PE,PI,SI,ST,TA,TE,TI,

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 132 words from pietas according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of pietas

pietas

Noun

pietas

  1. plural of pieta

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *pwījotāts. Equivalent to pius (“pious, devout”) +‎ -tās (“-ty, -dom”).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈpi.e.taːs/, [ˈpiɛt̪äːs̠]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈpi.e.tas/, [ˈpiːet̪äs]

Noun

pietās f (genitive pietātis); third declension

  1. dutiful conduct, sense of duty and responsibility
  2. (to the gods) piety, conscientiousness, scrupulousness
  3. (to one's parents, children, relatives, country, benefactors, etc.) duty, dutifulness, affection, love, loyalty, patriotism, gratitude
  4. gentleness, kindness, tenderness, pity, compassion
    Synonyms: indulgentia, beneficium, cōmitās, benignitās, benevolentia, venia, misericordia, eleēmosyna
    Antonyms: ferōcitās, crūdēlitās, feritās, sevēritās

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Derived terms

  • pietāticultrīx
  • pietantia
  • pietōsus

Related terms

  • piē
  • piō
  • pium
  • pius

Descendants

References

  • “pietas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “pietas”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • pietas in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • pietas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “pietas”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “pietas”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray

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