trust

See also: Trust

English

Etymology

From Middle English trust (“trust, protection”). Long considered a borrowing from Old Norse traust (“confidence, help, protection”), itself from Proto-Germanic *traustą, but the root vocalism is incompatible, and so it is considered a reflex of an unattested Old English *trust, from a rare zero-grade proto-Germanic variant of the same root also attested in Middle High German getrüste (“host”). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *deru- (“be firm, hard, solid”).[1]

Akin to Danish trøst (“comfort, solace”), Saterland Frisian Traast (“comfort, solace”), West Frisian treast (“comfort, solace”), Dutch troost (“comfort, consolation”), German Trost (“comfort, consolation”), Gothic trausti (“alliance, pact”). Doublet of tryst. More at true, tree.

Pronunciation
  • enPR: trŭst, IPA(key): /tɹʌst/, [tɹʌst], [tɹɐst], [t͡ʃɹ-]
  • Audio (GA)(file)
  • (Northern England) IPA(key): /tɹʊst/
  • Rhymes: -ʌst

Noun

trust (countable and uncountable, plural trusts)

  1. Confidence in or reliance on some person or quality.
    He needs to regain her trust if he is ever going to win her back.
    to lose trust in someone
    build up trust
    a relationship built on mutual trust
  2. Dependence upon something in the future; hope.
  3. Confidence in the future payment for goods or services supplied; credit.
    I was out of cash, but the landlady let me have it on trust.
  4. That which is committed or entrusted; something received in confidence; a charge.
  5. That upon which confidence is reposed; ground of reliance; hope.
  6. (rare) Trustworthiness, reliability.
  7. The condition or obligation of one to whom anything is confided; responsible charge or office.
  8. (law) The confidence vested in a person who has legal ownership of a property to manage for the benefit of another.
    I put the house into my sister's trust.
  9. (trust law) An arrangement whereby property or money is given to be held by a third party (a trustee), on the basis that it will be managed for the benefit of, or eventually transferred to, a stated beneficiary; for example, money to be given to a child when he or she reaches adulthood.
  10. A group of businessmen or traders organised for mutual benefit to produce and distribute specific commodities or services, and managed by a central body of trustees.
  11. (computing) Affirmation of the access rights of a user of a computer system.

Synonyms

Antonyms

Derived terms
Terms derived from trust (noun)

Translations
The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Verb

trust (third-person singular simple present trusts, present participle trusting, simple past and past participle trusted)

  1. (transitive) To place confidence in, to rely on, to confide in.
    We cannot trust anyone who deceives us.
  2. (intransitive, with in) To have faith in; to rely on for continuing support or aid.
    In God We Trust (official US motto)
  3. (transitive) To give credence to; to believe; to credit.
  4. (transitive) To hope confidently; to believe (usually with a phrase or infinitive clause as the object)
    I trust you have cleaned your room?
  5. (transitive) to show confidence in a person by entrusting them with something.
  6. (transitive) To commit, as to one's care; to entrust.
  7. (transitive) To give credit to; to sell to upon credit, or in confidence of future payment.
    Merchants and manufacturers trust their customers annually with goods.
  8. (intransitive, followed by to) To rely on (something), as though having trust (on it).
    to trust to luck
    Having lost the book, he had to trust to his memory for further details.
  9. (archaic, transitive) To risk; to venture confidently.
  10. (intransitive) To have trust; to be credulous; to be won to confidence; to confide.
  11. (archaic, intransitive) To sell or deliver anything in reliance upon a promise of payment; to give credit.

Conjugation
Conjugation of trust
infinitive (to) trust
present tense past tense
1st-person singular trust trusted
2nd-person singular trust, trustest† trusted, trustedst†
3rd-person singular trusts, trusteth† trusted
plural trust
subjunctive trust trusted
imperative trust —
participles trusting trusted

†Archaic or obsolete.

Antonyms

Derived terms
Terms derived from trust (verb)

Translations

Interjection

trust

  1. (originally African-American Vernacular, slang) Ellipsis of trust me.
    You'll get your money back bro, trust.
    • 2019 August 15, @ASDem, Twitter‎, archived from the original on 28 September 2023:
      P.S. Capitalizing MINORITY really doesn't help your cause bruh. Trust.

Adjective

trust (comparative more trust, superlative most trust)

  1. (obsolete) Secure, safe.
  2. (obsolete) Faithful, dependable.
  3. (law) of or relating to a trust.

References
  1. Richard Dance (2014) “Getting a word in: Contact, etymology and English vocabulary in the twelfth century”, in Journal of the British Academy‎, volume 2, →DOI, page 166:
    it is now usually agreed [that trust] cannot be explained as a loan from ON (cp. OIcel traustr ‘trusty’, treysta ‘to make trusty, trust’) but must be referred to a zero-grade derivation on the same PGmc root, which happens not to be recorded in OE; see e.g. OED s.v. trust adj., d’Ardenne (1961: glossary s.v. trusten), Hoad (1985: 139–40).

Further reading

Anagrams

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English trust.

Pronunciation
  • (France, Quebec) IPA(key): /tʁœst/
  • Audio(file)

Noun

trust m (plural trusts)

  1. a trust (a group of businessmen or traders)

Further reading

Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English trust.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈtrast/, /ˈtrɛst/, /ˈtrøst/[1]
  • Rhymes: -ast, -ɛst

Noun

trust m (invariable)

  1. trust (group of people)

Derived terms
  • trust di cervelli (“brains trust”)

References
  1. trust in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

Middle English

Alternative forms

Etymology

Long considered a borrowing from Old Norse traust (“confidence, help, protection”), itself from Proto-Germanic *traustą, but the root vocalism is incompatible, and so it is considered a reflex of an unattested Old English *trust, from a rare zero-grade proto-Germanic variant of the same root also attested in Middle High German getrüste (“host”). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *deru- (“be firm, hard, solid”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /trust/

Noun

trust (uncountable)

  1. confidence, reliance

Descendants
  • English: trust
  • Yola: thrist

References

Polish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English trust.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /trast/
  • Rhymes: -ast
  • Syllabification: trust

Noun

trust m inan (related adjective trustowy)

  1. (business) trust (group of businessmen or traders)

Declension
Declension of trust
singular plural
nominative trust trusty
genitive trustu trustów
dative trustowi trustom
accusative trust trusty
instrumental trustem trustami
locative truście trustach
vocative truście trusty

Further reading
  • trust in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French trust.

Noun

trust n (plural trusturi)

  1. trust (a group of businessmen)

Declension
Declension of trust
singular plural
indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) trust trustul (niște) trusturi trusturile
genitive/dative (unui) trust trustului (unor) trusturi trusturilor
vocative trustule trusturilor

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English trust.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈtɾast/ [ˈt̪ɾast̪], /ˈtɾust/ [ˈt̪ɾust̪]
  • Rhymes: -ast, -ust
  • Syllabification: trust

Noun

trust m (plural trusts)

  1. (finance) trust

Further reading
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.