English → Latin
“reliance” 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
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
reliance
fiducia: fides (faith in anybody’s integrity): spes firma or certa (firm hope): reliance on one’s self, fiducia (sui): fidentia (boldness): confidentia (a blind trust; especially in one’s own strength): audacia (boldness). To have or place one’s reliance 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 reliance in anything): to have reliance on one’s self, fiduciam in se collocare: to place too much reliance on one’s self, nimis sibi confidere: to place one’s whole reliance in anybody, se totum alicui committere: from reliance in myself, yourself, fiducia mea, tua; from reliance 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). To place reliance in one’s self, sibi confidere; (great reliance), multum in se fiduciae certa cum spe collocare: to place no reliance in a person, alicui diffidere.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for reliance?
- The usual Latin words for “reliance” 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.