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confido
confido
See also: confidò
Latin
Etymology
From con- (“with, together”) + fīdō (“trust; rely upon”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /konˈfiː.doː/, [kõːˈfiː.doː]
Verb
cōnfīdō (present infinitive cōnfīdere, perfect active cōnfīsus sum); third conjugation, semi-deponent
Usage notes
Used with the dative.
Inflection
| Conjugation of confido (third conjugation, semi-deponent) | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| indicative | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | cōnfīdō | cōnfīdis | cōnfīdit | cōnfīdimus | cōnfīditis | cōnfīdunt |
| imperfect | cōnfīdēbam | cōnfīdēbās | cōnfīdēbat | cōnfīdēbāmus | cōnfīdēbātis | cōnfīdēbant | |
| future | cōnfīdam | cōnfīdēs | cōnfīdet | cōnfīdēmus | cōnfīdētis | cōnfīdent | |
| perfect | cōnfīsus + present active indicative of sum | ||||||
| pluperfect | cōnfīsus + imperfect active indicative of sum | ||||||
| future perfect | cōnfīsus + future active indicative of sum | ||||||
| subjunctive | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | cōnfīdam | cōnfīdās | cōnfīdat | cōnfīdāmus | cōnfīdātis | cōnfīdant |
| imperfect | cōnfīderem | cōnfīderēs | cōnfīderet | cōnfīderēmus | cōnfīderētis | cōnfīderent | |
| perfect | cōnfīsus + present active subjunctive of sum | ||||||
| pluperfect | cōnfīsus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum | ||||||
| imperative | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | — | cōnfīde | — | — | cōnfīdite | — |
| future | — | cōnfīditō | cōnfīditō | — | cōnfīditōte | cōnfīduntō | |
| non-finite forms | active | passive | |||||
| present | perfect | future | present | perfect | future | ||
| infinitives | cōnfīdere | cōnfīsus esse | cōnfīsūrus esse | — | — | — | |
| participles | cōnfīdēns | cōnfīsus | cōnfīsūrus | — | — | — | |
| verbal nouns | gerund | supine | |||||
| nominative | genitive | dative/ablative | accusative | accusative | ablative | ||
| cōnfīdere | cōnfīdendī | cōnfīdendō | cōnfīdendum | cōnfīsum | cōnfīsū | ||
Synonyms
- (trust): fīdō
Derived terms
Descendants
- English: confide
- French: confier
- Italian: confidare
- Portuguese: confiar
- Romanian: confia
- Spanish: confiar
References
- confido in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- confido in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “confido”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
- Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to put confidence in some one: confidere alicui (but aliqua re)
- to put confidence in some one: confidere alicui (but aliqua re)