Fiducia, fiduciæ. Trust: considence: boldenesse: hope: moste commonly in the good part, sometime in the euill.Nunc propter te, tuamqúe prauos factu st fiduciam. Plautus. Through the trust and considence that he hath in thee.Formæ fiducia decipit.Ouid.Confidence in his beautie.Iuris fiducia. Quint. Minimæ fiduciæ exercitus.Liu.An armie that one trusteth not much vnto.Mea fiducia promisit. Plau. He promised it vpon affiance and trust in me.Nihil est quod in dextram aurem fiducia mei dormias.Plin. iun.There is no cause why you should be secure vppon afsiance or truste in me.Fiducia sui.Liu.Hardinesse: considence and trust in his own strength.Qua fiducia id facere audeam, nec quid me nunc faciã scio.Terent.Howe may I be so bolde to doe it. Audax fiducia.Stat.Hardie considence.Falsa formæ fiducia. Propert. Fraile considence in fauoure and beautie.Mendax fiducia.Ouid. Mutua inter se fiducia. Plin. In volucri tenuis fiducia cursu.Stat.Vana pedum fiducia.Ouid. Addere fiduciam alicui.Tacit.To put in a greate hope: to haue a confidence.Afferre fidnciam. Cæs. Idem. Per rationem fiduciæ fraudare quempiam. Cice. Habere orationis fiduciam. Quint. To haue a confidence in his stile.Iactare fiduciam. Quint. To brag of confidence that he hath.Audax metus, & pallens fiducia.Stat.Præ se ferre fiduciam. Quint. To shewe himselfe to haue an affiance.Stabilis beneuolentiæ fiducia in vita tyrannorum esse non potest.Cic.Fallax animum fiducia tangit.Ouid.Tantum illis in virtute ac fide. Theodori fiduciæ fuit. Liui.So great affiance they had in the vertue, &c.Facere fiducia alicuius quod facimus.Cicer.To doe that we doe vpon an affiance or truste we haue in one.Fiduciam etiam diligentiæ tibi habeo, vt credam te omni ratione id acturum.Plin. iun.I truste wel, or I haue a good trust and affiance, that you will be so diligent, &c. Fiducia.Trust, wherein any thing is deliuered and giuen into ones handes and possession to the intent that he shal deliuer it againe, when he is required at some other time.Fiduciam accipere, Vide ACCIPIO.Vpon ones faith and promise, so to receine possession of a thing, as he will after restore it to the partie againe.Fiduciam cõmittere.Cic.To deliuer the possession or charge of a thing in that sorte, as men doe in morgaging land.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
fīdūcĭa, ae, f. [fido], trust, confidence, reliance, assurance (class.). I.Lit.A. In gen.: prope certam fiduciam salutis praebere, Liv. 45, 8, 6; cf.: jam de te spem habeo, nondum fiduciam, Sen. Ep. 16: spes atque fiducia, Caes. B. C. 1, 20, 2: tyrannorum vita, nimirum in qua nulla fides, nulla stabilis benevolentiae potest esse fiducia, Cic. Lael. 15, 52: hoc se colle Galli fiduciā loci continebant, Caes. B. G. 7, 19, 2: tantam habebat (Curio) suarum rerum fiduciam, id. B. C. 2, 37, 1: arcae nostrae fiduciam conturbare, Cic. Q. Fr. 2, 12, 5: vitae nostrae, Ov. M. 1, 356: falsa'st ista tuae, mulier, fiducia formae, Prop. 3 (4), 24, 1; Ov. H. 16, 321: fiducia alicujus, Cic. Verr. 1, 14, 40: nihil est, quod in dextram aurem fiducia mei dormias,
by reason of any confidence you have in me
, Plin. Ep. 4, 29, 1: tantane vos generis tenuit fiducia vestri?Verg. A. 1, 132: quae sit fiducia capto,
on what the captive relied
,
hoped?
id. ib. 2, 75: humanis quae sit fiducia rebus,
reliance
, id. ib. 10, 152: mirabundi, unde tanta audacia, tanta fiducia sui victis ac fugatis,
self-confidence
,
confidence in themselves
, Liv. 25, 37, 12: mei tergi facio haec, non tui fiducia, i. e.
at my own peril
, Plaut. Most, 1, 1, 37; for which, with the pron. possess.: mea (instead of mei) fiducia opus conduxi et meo periculo rem gero, Plaut. Bacch. 4, 4, 100: nunc propter te tuamque pravus factus est fiduciam, reliance on you (for tuique), id. ib. 3, 3, 9: hanc fiduciam fuisse accusatoribus falsa obiciendi, Quint. 7, 2, 30: praestandi, quod exigebatur, fiducia, id. prooem. 3: nec mihi fiducia est, ut ea sola esse contendam, id. 5, 12, 1.—b. Concr.: spes et fiducia gentis Regulus, Sil. 2, 342; Ov. Tr. 5, 6, 1.—B. In partic., for fiducia sui, self-confidence, boldness, courage: omnes alacres et fiduciae pleni ad Alesiam proficiscuntur, Caes. B. G. 7, 76, 5: timorem suum sperabat fiduciam barbaris allaturum, Hirt. B. G. 8, 10, 1: consul ubi, quanta fiducia esset hosti sensit, etc., Liv. 34, 46, 5 and 8: hostis, id. 30, 29, 4: nimia, Nep. Pel. 3: fiduciam igitur orator prae se ferat, Quint. 5, 13, 51: simplicitate eorum et fiduciā motus, Suet. Claud. 25: non quo fiducia desit (mihi), Ov. H. 17, 37. —With a play in the meaning A. supra: Pe. Qua fiducia ausus (es) filiam meam dicere esse? Ep. Lubuit; ea fiducia, Plaut. Ep. 5, 2, 32.—II.Transf.A. Objectively (synon. with fides, II. A.), trustiness, fidelity: ut quod meae concreditum est Taciturnitati clam, fidei et fiduciae, Ne enuntiarem cuiquam, etc., Plaut. Trin. 1, 2, 105: ibo ad te, fretus tua, Fides, fiducia, id. Aul. 3, 6, 50.—B. Jurid. t. t., that which is intrusted to another on condition of its being returned, a deposit, pledge, security, pawn, mortgage: si tutor fidem praestare debet, si socius, si, cui mandaris, si qui fiduciam acceperit, debet etiam procurator, Cic. Top. 10, 42: fiduciā acceptā ... fiduciam committere alicui, id. Fl. 21, 51: per fiduciae rationem fraudare quempiam, id. Caecin. 3, 7; cf.: judicium fiduciae, id. Rosc. Com. 6, 16; id. N. D. 3, 30, 74: reliquorum judiciorum haec verba maxime excellunt: in arbitrio rei uxoriae, MELIVS AEQVIVS; in fiducia, VT INTER BONOS BENE AGIER, etc., id. Off. 3, 15, 61; cf.: ubi porro illa formula fiduciae, VT INTER BONOS BENE AGIER OPORTET, id. Fam. 7, 12, 2 (cf. also id. Top. 17, 66); Gai. Inst. 2, 59 sq.; Paul. Sent. 2, 13, 1 sqq.; cf. Dict. of Antiq. p. 443.