English

Fides astronomical symbol

Proper noun

Fides

1. (Roman mythology) Roman goddess of trust and loyalty. Her Greek equivalent was Pistis.
2. (astronomy) Short for 37 Fides, a main belt asteroid.

Synonyms

• (astronomy): 37 Fides

See also

• (mythology): Fides on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• (astronomy): 37 Fides on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Translations

See also

• Harpocrates, Greek god of silence, secrets and confidentiality.

Latin

Proper noun

Fidēs f ‎(genitive Fidēī); fifth declension

1. A female given name, a goddess.

Latin

Noun

fidēs f ‎(genitive fideī); fifth declension

1. faith, belief
2. reliance
3. confidence, trust

Inflection

Fifth declension.

Related terms

• fidēlis
• fidēlitās
• fīdō
• fīdus

Derived terms

• fides punica

Descendants

Etymology 2

From Ancient Greek σφίδη ‎(sphídē).

Noun

fidēs f ‎(genitive fidis); third declension

1. chord
2. the gut-string of a musical instrument
3. (in the plural) lyre, lute, harp (by extension)

Usage notes

Usually encountered in the plural.

Declension

Third declension.

Derived terms

• fidicen
• fidicula

Etymology 3

Inflection of fīdō ‎(“I trust”).

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, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “fides”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, 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 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

Volapük

Noun

fides

1. dative plural of fid