English → Latin
“confidence” 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, determinedfīdōto trust, put confidence in; to rely uponcōnfīdō(+ Dative of the person and e + ablative of the thing or in/de + ablative) to be confident or assured of, confide in, beaudāxbold, audacious, daring; presumptuous
The English word confidence itself goes back to Latin fīdō, through cōnfīdentia.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
confidence
fiducia: fides (faith in anybody’s integrity): spes firma or certa (firm hope): confidence in one’s self, fiducia (sui): fidentia (self-confidence, boldness): confidentia (a blind trust, especially in one’s own strength): audacia: (boldness): to have or place confidence in anybody, fidere or confidere alicui and alicui rei; fretum esse aliquo or aliqua re (to rely upon anything): fiduciam habere alicujus rei (to have confidence in anything): to have confidence in one’s self, fiduciam in se collocare: to place too much confidence in one’s self, nimis confidere: to place one’s whole confidence in anybody, se totum alicui committere; omnia consilia alicui credere: to have no confidence in a person, alicui diffidere: to tell anything to anybody in confidence, alicui aliquid secreto dicere: I tell you this in confidence, boc tibi soli dictum puta: hoc in aurem tibi dixerim; hoc lapidi dixerim; secreto hoc audi tecumque habeto; arcano tibi ego hoc dixi (sub rosa tibi hoc dixerim, not Latin): I wish to say a word or two to you in confidence, tribus verbis te volo: from confidence in myself, yourself, fiducia mea, tua. From confidence in anything, aliqua re fretus (objectively; as being protected by it) or confisus (subjectively, as trusting in it, and so making one’s self easy, Döderlein’s Synonyms): to feel some confidence that etc., fiduciam habere with accusative and infinitive to have confidence in one’s self, sibi confidere (great confidence), multum in se fiduciae certa cum spe collocare: to have great confidence in anybody, multum alicui tribuere (to think much of anybody): to inspire confidence, fiduciam facere: to lose the confidence of others, fidem aliorum amittere: he places so much confidence in me, as to believe that I shall do nothing, etc., fides apud hunc est me nihil facturum, etc.: to gain the confidence of men, hominum animos sibi conciliare: full confidence, firma animi confisio: with confidence, fidenter: fidenti animo (confidently): to speak with confidence, confidenter or asseveranter loqui: to assert with confidence, asseverare aliquid or de aliqua re; pro certo affirmare aliquid: full of confidence, fiduciae plenus.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for confidence?
- The usual Latin words for “confidence” are fīdūcia, fidēs, certus; also fīdō, cōnfīdō, audāx. 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.