English → Latin
“affiance” in Latin
fīdūciatrust, confidence, assurance, reliance; boldness, courage; deposit, pledge, mortgagefidēsfaith; belief (belief without empirical evidence, direct experience, or observation); reliance (act of relying on or trucertuscertain; fixed, settled, firm; resolved, determinedspōnsālisof betrothalfīdōto trust, put confidence in; to rely uponspondeōto promise, bind or pledge oneself, contract, vow; to guarantee; to promise for another; to become security for a persondēspondeōto promise (to give), pledge, devote to; to promise in marriage, betroth, engage; to put away from oneself, give up, yiedēspōnsōto betrothspōnsusa groom; a fiancé
The English word affiance itself goes back to Latin fīdō, through affīdāre.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
affiance
fiducia (the proper word): fides (belief in a man’s honesty): spes firma or certa (confident expectation). To have affiance in anything or anybody, fidere, confidere alicui rei or alicui: fretum esse aliqua re or aliquo (to build on anything): fiduciam habere alicujus rei (to rely confidently on anything).
Marriage contract, sponsalia.
affiance v.
spondere, despondere (alicui aliquam: desponsare, late): destinare alicui (jam destinata erat egregio juveni, Plin.) is post-Augustan in the sense of despondere alicui. To affiance one’s self to anybody, despondere sibi aliquam (of the man); alicui desponderi (of the woman).
Affianced, eponsus; to anybody, sponsa, desponsa alicui (of the woman).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for affiance?
- The usual Latin words for “affiance” are fīdūcia, fidēs, certus; also spōnsālis, fīdō, spondeō. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.