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“trust” in Latin
fīdūciatrust, confidence, assurance, reliance; boldness, courage; deposit, pledge, mortgagecōnfīdō(+ 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; presumptuousaudeōto dare, venture, risk; to be eager for battlefīdōto trust, put confidence in; to rely uponrīdeōto laugh; to laugh at, ridicule, mockfidēsfaith; belief (belief without empirical evidence, direct experience, or observation); reliance (act of relying on or truconcrēdōto entrust, consign, commit; to confidecommittōto join together, unite, connect, put together; to practise or perpetrate wrong, do injustice; commit a crime; to beginpermittōto let go, let loose; to cast, hurl, throw; send away, export; to give leave, give up, allow, suffer, grant, permit, sur
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
trust s.
Confidence, fiducia (the proper word, laudable trust in things we actually can rely on, which is allied to the courage of trusting in ourselves): confidentia (a blameable, presumtuous trust, particularly in one’s own strength; opposed to foresight and discretion): audacia (confidence arising from contempt of danger: it may imply either praise or dispraise): audentia (laudable confidence; spirit of enterprise): fidentia (“Fidentia est per quam magnis et honestis in rebus multum ipse animus in se fiduciae certa cum spe collocavit,” Cic.): rides (faith in a man’s honor): spes firma: spes certa (confident expectation): firma animi confisio: animus certus et confirmatus. [Phrases, in CONFIDENCE.]
Credit, fides. [Vid: CREDIT.]
Deposit, Vid.
trust v.
To intrust, alicui aliquid credere: concredere (comedy, rare in Cic.): commendare et concredere: committere: permittere (the latter, to leave anything to anybody for the purpose of getting rid of it one’s self; the former, to make anybody morally responsible for anything): mandare, demandare (to charge anybody with the management of anything): deponere aliquid apud aliquem (as a deposit, to be kept): alicujus fidei aliquid committere or permittere: tradere in alicujus fidem (to commit to anybody’s good faith): aliquid alicui delegare (of what one ought otherwise to do himself). To trust anybody with one’s secrets, occulta sua alicui credere; with one’s most secret thoughts, arcanos sensus credere alicui (Verg.); with one’s plans, consilia sua alicui credere; with one’s life, vitam suam alicui credere or committere; anybody with all I have, summam fidem rerum omnium alicui habere: with one’s reputation, existimationem suam committere alicui: famam ac fortunas suas credere alicui (Cic.): anybody with an office, a command, munus, imperium alicui dare or mandare: also, imperio aliquem praeficere; summam imperii alicui tradere, or ad aliquem deferre (Nep.): with the defence of a city, *urbem alicui tuendam dare: anybody with a letter, epistolam, litteras alicui committere.
To confide, fidere or confidere alicui or alicui rei: credere alicui: fidem habere, or tribuere, or adjungere (all four without distinction, Cic., De Div., 2, 55, 113; 2, 59, 122): fretum esse aliquo or aliqua re (rely on): fiduciam habere alicujus rei. To trust one’s self, fiduciam in se collocare: to trust too much, nimis confidere: to trust anybody’s virtue, credere alicujus virtuti (Sall.): not to trust anybody’s eyes, ears, oculis, auribus non credere: not to trust anybody, alicui diffidere: alicui fidem non habere. A man to be trusted, homo certus or fidus. Vid: CONFIDE.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for trust?
- The usual Latin words for “trust” are fīdūcia, cōnfīdō, audāx; also audeō, fīdō, rīdeō. 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.