confidant

English

Etymology

(deprecated template usage)

From French confident.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɑn.fɪ.dɑnt/
• IPA^(key): /ˌkɒn.fɪˈdænt/, /ˈkɒn.fɪˌdænt/
• Hyphenation: con‧fi‧dant

Noun

confidant (plural confidants)

1. A person in whom one can confide or share one's secrets: a friend.
   • 1675, John Dryden, Aureng-zebe, William Miller (1808), page 223:

     Heaven made you love me for no other end, / But to become my confidant and friend: / As such, I keep no secret from your sight, […]

   • 1895, Kenneth Graham, The Golden Age, London, page 5:

     One in thought and purpose, linked by the necessity of combating one hostile fate, a power antagonistic ever, - a power we lived to evade, - we had no confidants save ourselves.

Translations

person in whom one can confide

• Bulgarian: довереник (bg) m (doverenik), верен приятел (veren prijatel)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 密友 (zh) (mìyǒu), 知己 (zh) (zhījǐ)

• Czech: důvěrník (cs) m
• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Dutch: vertrouweling (nl), vertrouwelinge
• Finnish: uskottu (fi)
• French: confidente (fr) f, confident (fr) m
• German: Vertrauter m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Hungarian: kebelbarát (hu) m, kebelbarátnő f, bizalmas barát
• Icelandic: trúnaðarmaður m, trúnaðarvinur m, (obsolete, female) rún (is), (obsolete, female) rúna f
• Ido: konfidencario (io)
• Irish: rúnaí m, anamchara m, cara rúin m, rúnchara m
• Portuguese: confidente (pt)
• Russian: доверенное лицо n, наперсник (ru) m (napersnik)
• Spanish: confidente (es)

See also

• confidante

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Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /konˈfiː.dant/, [kõːˈfiːd̪än̪t̪]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /konˈfi.dant/, [koɱˈfiːd̪än̪t̪]

Verb

(deprecated template usage) cōnfīdant

1. third-person plural present active subjunctive of cōnfīdō