confido
See also: confidò
Italian
Verb
confido
- first-person singular present indicative of confidare
Anagrams
Latin
Etymology
From con- (“with, together”) + fīdō (“trust; rely upon”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [kõːˈfiː.doː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [koɱˈfiː.d̪o]
Verb
cōnfīdō (present infinitive cōnfīdere, perfect active cōnfīsus sum); third conjugation, semi-deponent
- (intransitive) (+ Dative of the person and e + ablative of the thing or in/de + ablative) to be confident or assured of, confide in, believe, trust, place or put confidence in; rely upon
Usage notes
Used with the dative.
Conjugation
Conjugation of cōnfīdō (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 | infinitive | participle | |||||||||||
| active | passive | active | passive | ||||||||||
| present | cōnfīdere | — | cōnfīdēns | — | |||||||||
| future | cōnfīsūrum esse | — | cōnfīsūrus | cōnfīdendus, cōnfīdundus | |||||||||
| perfect | cōnfīsum esse | — | cōnfīsus | — | |||||||||
| future perfect | cōnfīsum fore | — | — | — | |||||||||
| perfect potential | cōnfīsūrum fuisse | — | — | — | |||||||||
| verbal nouns | gerund | supine | |||||||||||
| genitive | dative | accusative | ablative | accusative | ablative | ||||||||
| cōnfīdendī | cōnfīdendō | cōnfīdendum | cōnfīdendō | cōnfīsum | cōnfīsū | ||||||||
Derived terms
Descendants
- Catalan: confiar
- English: confide
- French: confier
- Italian: confidare
- Old Galician-Portuguese: confiar
- Romanian: confia
- Sicilian: cunfidari
- Spanish: confiar
References
- confido in Enrico Olivetti, editor (2003-2025), Dizionario Latino, Olivetti Media Communication
- “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
- confido in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], 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)