The story
- Old French · derived fromconfidence
- Latin · derived fromcōnfīdentia
- Middle English · inherited fromconfidence
- English todayconfidence
From Middle English confidence, from Latin cōnfīdentia (possibly via Old French confidence), from cōnfīdō (“believe, confide in”) from con- (“with”) + fīdō (“trust”). By surface analysis, confide + ence.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.