## Meanings
1. The quality of staying faithful and giving steady support to someone or something.
2. A strong feeling of support or duty toward a person, group, or cause.

## Examples
- He showed great loyalty to his local football club after several bad seasons.
- Her loyalty to her old friends never faded over the years.

## Synonyms
- faith
- trueness

## Antonyms
- disloyalty

## Derived Forms
- semiloyalty
- unloyalty

## Related Forms
- allegiance
- fealty
- fidelity

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: loialte
- Affix: -ty - state

## Etymology
From Middle English loialte, borrowed from Old French loialte, loiauté (Modern loyauté) from loial + -té, equivalent to loyal + -ty.

## AI Etymology
Loyalty comes from Middle English loialte, borrowed from Old French loialte, loiauté (Modern loyauté) from loial + -té, equivalent to loyal + -ty. In present-day English its meanings include the quality of staying faithful and giving steady support to someone or something and a strong feeling of support or duty toward a person, group, or cause. The historical chain runs through loialte (Middle English) and loialte (Old French). Related and derived forms include allegiance, fealty, fidelity, and semiloyalty.

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