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5-letter words (2 found)

DEFIS,FIDES,

4-letter words (11 found)

DEFI,DEIF,DESI,DIES,DIFS,FEDS,FEIS,FIDS,IDES,SEIF,SIDE,

3-letter words (17 found)

DEF,DEI,DIE,DIF,DIS,EDS,EFS,FED,FES,FID,FIE,IDE,IDS,IFS,SED,SEI,SIF,

2-letter words (10 found)

DE,DI,ED,EF,ES,FE,ID,IF,IS,SI,

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 41 words from fides according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

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Definitions and meaning of fides

fides

Latin

Etymology 1

From Proto-Indo-European *bʰeydʰ- (“to command, to persuade, to trust”). Cognate to Latin fīdō (“I trust”) and Proto-Germanic *bīdaną.

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈfi.deːs/, [ˈfɪd̪eːs̠]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈfi.des/, [ˈfiːd̪es]

Noun

fidēs f (genitive fideī); fifth declension

  1. faith, belief (belief without empirical evidence, direct experience, or observation)
  2. reliance (act of relying on or trusting)
    Synonym: fīdūcia
  3. confidence, trust (confidence in or reliance on some person or quality)
  4. credit (acceptance of the truth of something said or done)
  5. loyalty, fidelity, faith (state of demonstrating undivided and constant support for someone or something)
  6. good faith (good, honest intentions)
  7. honesty (act, quality, or condition of being honest)
  8. guarantee, promise (an assurance of something to be done)
    Synonyms: prōmissum, pollicitum, prōmissiō, crēdentia
  9. help, assistance
    Synonyms: adiūtus, adiumentum, auxilium, subsidium, ops, praesidium
Declension

Fifth-declension noun, singular only.

Derived terms
  • fidēs Pūnica
  • Sōlifidiānus
Related terms
  • fidēlis
  • fidēlitās
  • fīdō
  • fīdus
Descendants
  • Dalmatian:
    • faid
  • Italo-Romance:
    • Italian: fede
    • Sicilian: fidi
      • → Maltese: fidi
  • Insular Romance:
    • Sardinian: fide, fidi
  • North Italian:
    • Friulian: fede
    • Old Piedmontese: fay
      • Piedmontese: fèj
    • Romansch: fai
    • Venetian: fè
  • Gallo-Romance:
    • Catalan: fe
    • Old French: foi, feid, fid, fiet; fai, fei, foy
      • French: foi
      • Norman: fouai
      • → Middle English: feith, faith, fath, fei, fai
        • English: faith
        • Scots: faith
        • Yola: faaighe, faighe, faigh, fythe
    • Old Occitan: fe, fei
      • Occitan: fe
  • Ibero-Romance:
    • Asturian: fe
    • Old Galician-Portuguese: fe
      • Fala: fe
      • Galician: fe
      • Portuguese: fé
    • Old Spanish: fe, fee, fed
      • Spanish: fe
  • Borrowings:
    • → Albanian: fe
    • → Welsh: ffydd

Etymology 2

From Ancient Greek σφίδη (sphídē).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈfi.deːs/, [ˈfɪd̪eːs̠]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈfi.des/, [ˈfiːd̪es]

Noun

fidēs f (genitive fidis); third declension

  1. (music) chord, string, gutstring
    • c. 25 BCE, Ovid, Heroides, Letter 15: "Sappho Phaoni":
      Sume fidem et pharetram fies manifestus Apollo
      Take up string and quiver and you are Apollo manifest
  2. (in the plural) lyre, lute, harp (by extension) (any of a number of ancient stringed musical instruments)
Usage notes

Usually encountered in the plural.

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

Derived terms
  • fidicen
  • fidicula

Etymology 3

Inflection of fīdō (“I trust”).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈfiː.deːs/, [ˈfiːd̪eːs̠]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈfi.des/, [ˈfiːd̪es]

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 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[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • “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

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Noun

fides

  1. dative plural of fid

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