diffido
See also: diffidò
Italian
Verb
diffido
- first-person singular present indicative of diffidare
Latin
Etymology
From dis- + fīdō.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /difˈfiː.doː/, [d̪ɪfˈfiːd̪oː]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /difˈfi.do/, [d̪ifˈfiːd̪o]
Verb
diffīdō (present infinitive diffīdere, perfect active diffīsus sum); third conjugation, semi-deponent
- I distrust, am diffident, am distrustful (coupled with dative of the thing or person subjected)
- Synonym: suspiciō
- Antonyms: fīdō, cōnfīdō, crēdō
- I despair (of)
- Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita I, 2:
- inde Turnus Rutulique diffisi rebus
- Then Turnus and the Rutulians, being despaired at the situation
- inde Turnus Rutulique diffisi rebus
Usage notes
Used with the dative.
Conjugation
| Conjugation of diffīdō (third conjugation, semi-deponent) | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| indicative | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | diffīdō | diffīdis | diffīdit | diffīdimus | diffīditis | diffīdunt |
| imperfect | diffīdēbam | diffīdēbās | diffīdēbat | diffīdēbāmus | diffīdēbātis | diffīdēbant | |
| future | diffīdam | diffīdēs | diffīdet | diffīdēmus | diffīdētis | diffīdent | |
| perfect | diffīsus + present active indicative of sum | ||||||
| pluperfect | diffīsus + imperfect active indicative of sum | ||||||
| future perfect | diffīsus + future active indicative of sum | ||||||
| subjunctive | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | diffīdam | diffīdās | diffīdat | diffīdāmus | diffīdātis | diffīdant |
| imperfect | diffīderem | diffīderēs | diffīderet | diffīderēmus | diffīderētis | diffīderent | |
| perfect | diffīsus + present active subjunctive of sum | ||||||
| pluperfect | diffīsus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum | ||||||
| imperative | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | — | diffīde | — | — | diffīdite | — |
| future | — | diffīditō | diffīditō | — | diffīditōte | diffīduntō | |
| non-finite forms | active | passive | |||||
| present | perfect | future | present | perfect | future | ||
| infinitives | diffīdere | diffīsum esse | diffīsūrum esse | — | — | — | |
| participles | diffīdēns | diffīsus | diffīsūrus | — | — | — | |
| verbal nouns | gerund | supine | |||||
| genitive | dative | accusative | ablative | accusative | ablative | ||
| diffīdendī | diffīdendō | diffīdendum | diffīdendō | diffīsum | diffīsū | ||
References
- “diffido”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “diffido”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- diffido in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- diffido in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016