According to the Oxford Latin to English dictionary, the word fides means all these things.
- allegiance
- reliance
- guarantee
- loyalty
- fidelity
- faithfulness
- engagement
- dependence
- promise
- truth
- trust
- honour
- conscientiousness
- authenticity
- faith
- warrant
Which I reckon makes it a pretty good word to use for non-religious civil unions. I'm not sure how you'd create all the extra adjectives and verbs from it. Maybe Rach can do that part. Everything I think of sounds silly.
fidet, fiderite, fidate.
Needs some work.
fidelitous bond?
Haley / 9:17am / 22 June 2004
“Mom, I’m taking the fides with John”
Willem / 7:51pm / 22 June 2004
lol and what I make up won’t sound silly?
Ogility.
Rach / 10:39pm / 22 June 2004
Better people laugh at you than me.
Ryan / 10:41pm / 22 June 2004
I’m getting ogiled.
Jem / 11:20am / 23 June 2004
Really Jem? Did Chris finally ogilate to you? It’s about bloody time.
Ryan / 1:57pm / 23 June 2004
I thought it was impolite to ogilate girls.
Willem / 5:03pm / 23 June 2004
I know quite a lot of ogiled girls, I don’t think its impolite. But I was only being silly.
Jem / 5:59pm / 23 June 2004