Etymology 1

From Proto-Indo-EuropeanCategory:Latin terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#FIDES *bʰeydʰ- (“to command, to persuade, to trust”). Cognate to Latin fīdō (“to trust”) and Proto-Germanic *bīdaną.

Etymology 2

Etymology 3

From Ancient GreekCategory:Latin terms derived from Ancient Greek#FIDES σφίδη (sphídē).

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, 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, 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
    

  Category:Latin words in Meissner and Auden's phrasebook
• “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

Noun

fidesCategory:Volapük non-lemma forms#FIDESCategory:Volapük noun forms#FIDESCategory:Volapük entries with incorrect language header#FIDESCategory:Pages with entries#FIDESCategory:Pages with 2 entries#FIDES

1. dative plural of fid