CONFIDE Copy link • CONFIDEfidere or confidere alicui or alicui rei or aliqua re (to place one’s confidence in anybody or anything): fretum esse aliquo or aliqua re (to trust in, depend upon): niti aliqua re (to rely upon): fiduciam habere alicujus rei (to have confidence in anything): credere: fidem habere or tribuere or adjungere (to put faith in; all four without distinction; Vid: Cic., de Divin: 2, 55, 113: 2, 59, 122): not to confide in anybody, alicui parum fidere; alicui fidem non habere; alicui parvam fidem habere: not to confide at all in anybody, alicui diffidere: Confiding in, fretus aliqua re; nixus aliqua re (trusting in anything, relying on it): ferox aliqua re (confiding presumptuously; e.g., ea, parte virium) : To intrust, credere, concredere: commendare et concredere: committere: permittere (to leave to anybody): mandare: demandare (to give to anybody to keep, or in charge): deponere aliquid apud aliquem (to give anything to anybody in trust): to confide anything to the faith of anybody, fidei alicujus aliquid committere or permittere; tradere in alicujus fidem aliquid: to confide one’s plans to anybody, consilia sua alicui credere: one’s secrets, occulta sua alicui credere: one’s life, vitam suam alicui credere or committere: to confide one’s self to anybody’s protection, se permittere, committere, tradere in alicujus fidem: to confide every thing to anybody, summam fidem rerum omnium alicui habere: to confide several boys to the care of one master, unius magistri curae plures pueros demandare: to confide one’s honour to anybody, existimationem suam committere alicui: to confide in anybody’s secrecy, taciturnitati alicujus aliquid concredere: to confide an office, command, etc., to anybody, munus, imperium alicui dare or mandare: to confide a town to anybody (in order to defend it), *urbem alicui tuendam dare: a person to whom one confides all one’s secrets, secretorum omnium arbiter: a person to whom one may confide anything, or in whom one may entirely confide, homo certus or fidus: a person who confides too easily in others, incautior fidei sestimator.