confident

The story

1. Latin · derived fromconfidens“confident, i.e. self-confident, in a good or bad sense, bold, daring, audacious, impudent”
2. Middle French · derived fromconfident
3. English todayconfident

From Middle French confident, from Latin confidens (“confident, i.e. self-confident, in a good or bad sense, bold, daring, audacious, impudent”), present participle of confidere (“to trust fully, confide”). See confide.