fidens Latin · revision 33887

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=81–43 BC, Cicero|origins=ine-pro *bʰeidʰ-e/o-}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''fīdēns''' (genitive fīdentis, comparative fīdentior); third-declension one-termination adjective^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ Used as an adjective, it is the present participle [[der|la|fīdō|t=to trust]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan traces [[m|la|fīdō]] to [[itc-pro|*feiþe-|t=to trust]] and [[ine-pro|*bʰeidʰ-e/o-|t=to trust]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler dates it from Cicero,^(Köbler 2010) who in the ''Tusculan Disputations'' says that the brave man is also ''fīdēns'', since ''cōnfīdēns'' is used of a fault, and that he who is ''fīdēns'' has no fear.^(TLL)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means self-confident, assured, bold, and with the genitive confident in something.^(OLD 2012) Cicero writes in a letter that a remark is the evidence not of a confident man but of a frightened one,^(TLL) and in Virgil's ''Aeneid'' someone is told to meet the enemy with a bold breast.^(TLL) The OLD records the comparative ''fīdentior''.^(OLD 2012) Stelten gives "faithful, sincere, true" for Church Latin, with the adverb ''fīdenter''.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero distinguishes it from ''cōnfīdēns''.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil of a bold breast.^(TLL)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # [[m|en|self-confident|alt=Self-confident]], assured, [[m|en|bold]];^(OLD 2012)^(TLL) ''(with genitive)'' confident in.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)

+ # ''(Ecclesiastical Latin)'' Faithful, sincere, true.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[fīdō]]

+ * [[cōnfīdēns]]

+ * [[fīdenter]]

+ * [[fidēs]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}