fides

== Latin == === Etymology 1 === From Proto-Indo-European *bʰeydʰ- (“to command, to persuade, to trust”). Cognate to Latin fīdō (“to trust”) and Proto-Germanic *bīdaną. ==== Pronunciation ==== (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈfɪ.deːs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈfiː.des] ==== Noun ==== fidēs f sg (genitive fidē̆ī or fidē or fidī); fifth declension faith; belief (belief without empirical evidence, direct experience, or observation) reliance (act of relying on or trusting) Synonym: fīdūcia confidence; trust (confidence in or reliance on some person or quality) credit (acceptance of the truth of something said or done) loyalty; fidelity, faith (state of demonstrating undivided and constant support for someone or something) good faith (good, honest intentions) honesty (act, quality, or condition of being honest) guarantee; promise (an assurance of something to be done) Synonyms: prōmissum, pollicitum, prōmissiō, crēdentia help; assistance Synonyms: adiūtus, adiumentum, auxilium, subsidium, ops, praesidium ===== Declension ===== Fifth-declension noun, singular only. ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Related terms ===== ===== Descendants ===== === Etymology 2 === ==== Pronunciation ==== (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈfiː.deːs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈfiː.des] ==== Verb ==== fīdēs second-person singular future active indicative of fīdō (“to trust; to put confidence in”) === Etymology 3 === From Ancient Greek σφίδη (sphídē). ==== Pronunciation ==== (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈfɪ.deːs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈfiː.des] ==== Noun ==== fidēs f (genitive fidis); third declension (music) string; cord; gutstring c. 25 BCE, Ovid, Heroides, Letter 15: "Sappho Phaoni": Sume fidem et pharetram fies manifestus Apollo Take up string and quiver and you are Apollo manifest (chiefly in the plural, poetic in the singular) a lyre, lute, harp, or another stringed instrument sume fidem et pharetram ― take up string and quiver ===== Declension ===== Third-declension noun (i-stem). ==== Noun ==== fidēs nominative/accusative/vocative plural of fidis ===== Derived terms ===== === References === “fides1”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “fides2”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “fides”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "fides", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) “fides”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co. “fides”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers “fides”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray “fides”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin Dizionario Latino-Italiano Olivetti == Volapük == === Noun === fides dative plural of fid