TRUST Copy link • TRUST 1. 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. 2. 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.