trust (subs.) Copy link Outline I. ConfidenceII. Something entrusted1. crēdĭtum2. dēpŏsĭtum (money deposited with any one for security)3. in wider sense, mandātum, oft. pl. (anything entrusted to any one to do)III. Credit • trust (subs.): I. Confidence: fĭdes, fīdūcia (assurance), fīdentia: v. confidence. To put t. in, fidere, confidere: v. to trust. II. Something entrusted: 1. crēdĭtum: to deny a t. on oath, c. abjurare, Sall. Cat. 25: to receive anything as a t. (or loan), aliquid tanquam c. accipere, Sen. Ben. 2, 21. 2. dēpŏsĭtum (money deposited with any one for security): to return a t., d. reddere, Cic. Off. 1, 10, 31: to deny a t., d. infitiari, Juv. 13, 60: cf. Ulp. Dig. 16, 3, 1 (throughout). 3. in wider sense, mandātum, oft. pl. (anything entrusted to any one to do): v. commission, charge. III. Credit: fĭdes (III.).
trust (v.) Copy link Outline I. To place confidence in1. fīdo, confīdo, fīsus, 3 (with dat. of person, dat. or abl. of thing, in which trust is placed)2. crēdo, dĭdi, dĭtum, 3 (esp. with ref. to words spoken; whereas fido refers rather to persons or acts)II. To entrust • trust (v.): I. To place confidence in: 1. fīdo, confīdo, fīsus, 3 (with dat. of person, dat. or abl. of thing, in which trust is placed): to t. in oneself, sibi f., Hor. Ep. 1, 19, 22: Cic.: (Caesar) t.'d this legion most of all, huic legioni confidebat maxime, Caes. B. G. 1, 40: to t. in the stability of fortune, stabilitate fortunae c., Cic. Tusc. 5, 14. The abl. may also be used of a person when there is an attributive: e. g. alio? duce c., Liv. 21, 4, med. (see the place): Ov. 2. crēdo, dĭdi, dĭtum, 3 (esp. with ref. to words spoken; whereas fido refers rather to persons or acts): also, credo, when it signifies to put trust in, denotes less than fido does; often referring only to one particular act or kind of trust: (cf. Liv. 2, 45, consules magis non confidere quam non credere suis militibus, i. e. they did not distrust their fidelity, but they had not thorough confidence in them): t. not the horse! equo ne credite! Virg. Aen. 2, 48: Cic. (Concredo always trans.: v. infr.) Phr.: t.ing to, frētus (with abl.): v. relying on. II. To entrust: crēdo, concrēdo; committo, commendo: v. to confide.
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.