Esperanto edit

Pronunciation edit

  • (file)

Verb edit

fidus

  1. conditional of fidi

Ido edit

Verb edit

fidus

  1. conditional of fidar

Latin edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Italic *feiðos, from the same root as fīdō.

Pronunciation edit

Adjective edit

fīdus (feminine fīda, neuter fīdum, comparative fīdior, superlative fīdissimus); first/second-declension adjective

  1. trusty, trustworthy, dependable, credible
  2. loyal, faithful
  3. steadfast
  4. certain, safe

Declension edit

First/second-declension adjective.

Number Singular Plural
Case / Gender Masculine Feminine Neuter Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative fīdus fīda fīdum fīdī fīdae fīda
Genitive fīdī fīdae fīdī fīdōrum fīdārum fīdōrum
Dative fīdō fīdō fīdīs
Accusative fīdum fīdam fīdum fīdōs fīdās fīda
Ablative fīdō fīdā fīdō fīdīs
Vocative fīde fīda fīdum fīdī fīdae fīda

Synonyms edit

Related terms edit

Descendants edit

  • Italian: fido
  • Spanish: fido
  • Portuguese: fido

References edit

  • fidus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • fidus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • fidus 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)
  • fidus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
  • Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • (ambiguous) historic times: historicorum fide contestata memoria
    • (ambiguous) an acknowledged historical fact: res historiae fide comprobata
    • (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) to promise an oath to..: iureiurando ac fide se obstringere, ut

Volapük edit

Noun edit

fidus

  1. predicative plural of fid