confidentia

Latin

Etymology

From cōnfīdēns +‎ -ia.

Noun

cōnfīdentia f (genitive cōnfīdentiae); first declension

1. assurance, confidence
2. boldness, impudence, audacity

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	cōnfīdentia	cōnfīdentiae
genitive	cōnfīdentiae	cōnfīdentiārum
dative	cōnfīdentiae	cōnfīdentiīs
accusative	cōnfīdentiam	cōnfīdentiās
ablative	cōnfīdentiā	cōnfīdentiīs
vocative	cōnfīdentia	cōnfīdentiae

Related terms

• cōnfīdēns
• cōnfīdō

Descendants

• Catalan: confidència
• → English: confidence
• French: confidence
• Italian: confidenza
• Portuguese: confidência
• Romanian: confidență
• Spanish: confidencia

References

• “confidentia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “confidentia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• confidentia 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)
• confidentia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.