# fiducia
## Italian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fīdūcia.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /fiˈdu.t͡ʃa/
* Rhymes: -utʃa
* Hyphenation: fi‧dù‧cia
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

fiducia f (plural fiducie)
* trust, faith
* confidence
* credit

#### Derived terms

* fiduciante
* fiducioso
* sfiducia
* sfiduciare

#### Related terms

* fidare
* fido
* fiduciario

### Further reading

* fiducia in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

## Latin
### Etymology

From unattested *fīdūcus +‎ -ia, from fīdō (“I trust”) +‎ -ūcus, confer cadūcus.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /fiːˈduː.ki.a/, [fiːˈd̪uːkiä]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /fiˈdu.t͡ʃi.a/, [fiˈd̪uːt͡ʃiä]

### Noun

fīdūcia f (genitive fīdūciae); first declension
* trust, confidence, assurance, reliance
    Synonym: fidēs
** 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 1.132:“Tantane vōs generis tenuit fīdūcia vestrī?”“Have you such confidence in your lineage?” (Neptune addresses the winds: The particle “-ne” – tanta-ne – denotes the question.)
* boldness, courage
    Synonyms: spīritus, fortitūdō, virtūs, animus
* (law) deposit, pledge, mortgage
    Synonyms: vōtum, pignus

#### Declension

First-declension noun.

#### Related terms

* fidē
* fidēlis
* fidēlitās
* fidēliter
* fīdens
* fīdenter
* fīdentia
* fīdō
* fidūciārius
* fīdūciō
* fīdus

#### Descendants

* Italo-Romance:
** Tuscan:
    Lucca: feducia
    Viareggio: feduce
* Gallo-Italic:
** Old Lombard: fiuxia
** Old Northern Italian: fedusia
** Piedmontese: fiusa
* Ibero-Romance:
** Old Galician-Portuguese: feuza
*** Galician: fiúza
*** Portuguese: fiúza
** Old Spanish: feduza, feuza, fiuza, fiuzia, fuyzia, fuzia
*** Spanish: hucia (obsolete)
* Borrowings:
** → Catalan: fidúcia
** → French: fiducie
** → Italian: fiducia
** → Sicilian: fiducia
** → Spanish: fiducia

### References

* Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1984) “hucia”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), volume III (G–Ma), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 410
* Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “fiducia”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 3: D–F, page 505
* ↑ Walde, Alois, Hofmann, Johann Baptist (1938) “fīdō”, in Lateinisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), 3rd edition, volume I, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, page 493

### Further reading

* “fiducia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “fiducia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* "fiducia", 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)
* fiducia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co. to put confidence in some one: fiduciam in aliquo ponere, collocare to have great confidence in a thing: fiduciam (alicuius rei) habere self-confidence: fiducia sui (Liv. 25. 37)
* “fiducia”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
* “fiducia”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

## Spanish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fiducia. Compare the obsolete doublet hucia, which was inherited.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Spain) /fiˈduθja/ [fiˈð̞u.θja]
* IPA: (Latin America, Philippines) /fiˈdusja/ [fiˈð̞u.sja]
* Rhymes: -uθja
* Rhymes: -usja
* Syllabification: fi‧du‧cia

### Noun

fiducia f (plural fiducias)
* (financial) trust

### Further reading

* “fiducia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10