fides

See also: Fides

Latin

Etymology 1

From Proto-Indo-European *bʰeydʰ- (“to command, to persuade, to trust”). Cognate to Latin fīdō (“I trust”) and Proto-Germanic *bīdaną.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈfi.deːs/, [ˈfɪd̪eːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈfi.des/, [ˈfiːd̪es]

Noun

fidēs f (genitive fideī); fifth declension

1. faith, belief (belief without empirical evidence, direct experience, or observation)
2. reliance (act of relying on or trusting)

   Synonym: fīdūcia

3. confidence, trust (confidence in or reliance on some person or quality)
4. credit (acceptance of the truth of something said or done)
5. loyalty, fidelity, faith (state of demonstrating undivided and constant support for someone or something)
6. good faith (good, honest intentions)
7. honesty (act, quality, or condition of being honest)
8. guarantee, promise (an assurance of something to be done)

   Synonyms: prōmissum, pollicitum, prōmissiō, crēdentia

9. help, assistance

   Synonyms: adiūtus, adiumentum, auxilium, subsidium, ops, praesidium

   • 27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita I.7:

     Fidem pastorum nequiquam invocans

     vainly appealing for help to the shepherds

Declension

Fifth-declension noun, singular only.

	singular
nominative	fidēs
genitive	fideī fidēī fidē fidī fidēs
dative	fideī fidē fidī
accusative	fidem
ablative	fidē
vocative	fidēs

Derived terms

• fidēs Pūnica
• Sōlifidiānus

Related terms

• fidēlis
• fidēlitās
• fīdō
• fīdus

Descendants

• Dalmatian:
  • faid
• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: fede
  • Sicilian: fidi
    • → Maltese: fidi
• Insular Romance:
  • Sardinian: fide, fidi
• North Italian:
  • Friulian: fede
  • Old Piedmontese: fay
    • Piedmontese: fèj
  • Romansch: fai
  • Venetan: fè
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Catalan: fe
  • Old French: foi, feid, fid, fiet (archaic), fai, fei, foy
    • Champenois: fiate, fiaite
    • Middle French: foy
      • French: foi
      • → English: foy, Foy
    • Norman: fouai
    • → Middle English: feith, feiþ, feyth, feyt, faith, faythe, fath, fai, fay, faye, fei, fey, feye
      • English: faith
      • Scots: faith
      • Yola: faaighe, faighe, faigh, fythe
  • Old Occitan: fe, fei
    • Occitan: fe
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Asturian: fe
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: fe
    • Fala: fe
    • Galician: fe
    • Portuguese: fé
  • Old Spanish: fe, fee, fed
    • Spanish: fe
• Borrowings:
  • → Albanian: fe
  • → Welsh: ffydd

Etymology 2

From Ancient Greek σφίδη (sphídē).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈfi.deːs/, [ˈfɪd̪eːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈfi.des/, [ˈfiːd̪es]

Noun

fidēs f (genitive fidis); third declension

1. (music) chord, string, 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

2. (in the plural) lyre, lute, harp (by extension) (any of a number of ancient stringed musical instruments)

Usage notes

Usually encountered in the plural.

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

	singular	plural
nominative	fidēs	fidēs
genitive	fidis	fidium
dative	fidī	fidibus
accusative	fidem	fidēs fidīs
ablative	fide	fidibus
vocative	fidēs	fidēs

Derived terms

• fidicen
• fidicula

Etymology 3

Inflection of fīdō (“I trust”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈfiː.deːs/, [ˈfiːd̪eːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈfi.des/, [ˈfiːd̪es]

Verb

fīdēs

1. second-person singular future active indicative of fīdō

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’s 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.
  • to fly to some one for refuge: confugere ad aliquem or ad opem, ad fidem alicuius
    
  • to give a veracious and historic account of a thing: narrare aliquid ad fidem historiae
    
  • to teach some one to play a stringed instrument: docere aliquem fidibus
    
  • to learn to play a stringed instrument: fidibus discere (De Sen. 8. 26)
    
  • to play on the lyre: fidibus canere
    
  • to strike the strings of the lyre: pellere nervos in fidibus
    
  • to believe a person: fidem habere alicui
    
  • to make some one believe a thing: fidem alicuius rei facere alicui
    
  • to believe in, trust in a thing: fidem tribuere, adiungere alicui rei
    
  • to rob a person of his credit: fidem abrogare, derogare alicui
    
  • to weaken, destroy a man's credit: fidem alicuius imminuere, infirmare (opp. confirmare)
    
  • to entrust a thing to a person's good faith: committere aliquid alicui or alicuius fidei
    
  • to preserve one's loyalty: fidem colere, servare
    
  • to keep faith with a person, keep one's word: fidem praestare alicui
    
  • to break one's word: fidem laedere, violare, frangere
    
  • to make a person waver in his loyalty: fidem alicuius labefactare (Cluent. 60. 194)
    
  • to put oneself under some one's protection: se conferre, se tradere, se permittere in alicuius fidem
    
  • to flee for refuge to some one: confugere ad aliquem, ad fidem alicuius
    
  • to take a person under one's protection: in fidem recipere aliquem (B. G. 2. 15. 1)
    
  • to implore some one's protection: fidem alicuius obsecrare, implorare
    
  • to confirm, ratify, sanction something: fidem addere alicui rei
    
  • to guarantee the protection of the state; to promise a safe-conduct: fidem publicam dare, interponere (Sall. Iug. 32. 1)
    
  • to give one's word that..: fidem dare alicui (opp. accipere) (c. Acc. c. Inf.)
    
  • to keep one's word (not tenere): fidem servare (opp. fallere)
    
  • to fulfil a promise: fidem persolvere
    
  • to fulfil a promise: fidem (promissum) praestare
    
  • to pledge one's word to..: fidem interponere (Sall. Iug. 32. 5)
    
  • to break one's word: fidem prodere
    
  • to break one's word: fidem frangere
    
  • to make a thing credible: fidem facere, afferre alicui rei (opp. demere, de-, abrogare fidem)
    
  • (ambiguous) a thing finds credence, is credible: aliquid fidem habet (vid. also fides under sect. VII., History)
    
  • to rob a person of his credit: fidem derogare alicui
    
  • to shake credit: fidem moliri (Liv. 6. 11. 8)
    
  • to surrender oneself to the discretion of some one: se permittere in fidem atque in potestatem alicuius (B. G. 2. 3)
    
  • to deal mercifully with some one: in fidem recipere aliquem (Fam. 13. 16)
    
  • (ambiguous) historic times: historicorum fide contestata memoria
    
  • (ambiguous) historic truth: historiae, rerum fides
    
  • (ambiguous) an acknowledged historical fact: res historiae fide comprobata
    
  • (ambiguous) genuine historical truth: incorrupta rerum fides
    
  • (ambiguous) to remain loyal: in fide manere (B. G. 7. 4. 5)
    
  • (ambiguous) to undermine a person's loyalty: de fide deducere or a fide abducere aliquem
    
  • (ambiguous) having exchanged pledges, promises: fide data et accepta (Sall. Iug. 81. 1)
    
  • (ambiguous) to be bound by one's word; to be on one's honour: fide obstrictum teneri (Pis. 13. 29)
    
  • (ambiguous) a thing finds credence, is credible: aliquid fidem habet (vid. also fides under sect. VII., History)
    
  • (ambiguous) to promise an oath to..: iureiurando ac fide se obstringere, ut
    
  • (ambiguous) credit and financial position: fides et ratio pecuniarum
    
  • (ambiguous) credit is going down: fides (vid. sect. IX. 10, note fides has six...) concidit
    
  • (ambiguous) a man's credit begins to go down: fides aliquem deficere coepit
    
  • (ambiguous) credit has disappeared: fides (de foro) sublata est (Leg. Agr. 2. 3. 8)
    
  • (ambiguous) credit is low throughout Italy: fides tota Italia est angusta
    
• “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

1. dative plural of fid