Word Origin Summary

Cōnfīdentia is attested in Latin. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Descendants and Related Terms

• confidence

  French · borrowed from

• konfyans

  Antillean Creole · derived from

• konfyans

  Plateau Haitian Creole · derived from

• confidenza

  Italian · derived from

• confidență

  Romanian · borrowed from

• confiance

  French · borrowed from

• confiență

  Romanian · borrowed from

• confidence

  English · derived from

What You Can Explore

• 🗺️Geographic migration map — see where this word traveled
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• 📅Historical timeline — when the word entered different languages
• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root