## Meanings
1. To tell someone a secret or private matter because you trust them.
2. To share your private thoughts with someone you trust.
3. To trust someone with an important task or responsibility.

## Examples
- She finally confided her fears to her closest friend.
- He had no one to confide in after the divorce.
- They confided the running of the office to their deputy.

## Derived Forms
- confidable
- confidee
- confider
- confiding
- misconfide
- reconfide
- unconfided

## Related Forms
- confidant
- confidante
- confidence
- confident
- confidential
- overconfident

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: *bʰeydʰ-
- Root: confide
- Root: confīdō

## Etymology
From Middle Scots confide, confyde (“to put trust in”), from Latin confīdere (“to put trust in, have confidence in”), from con- (“together”) + fidēre (“to trust”). First attested in English use in the early 17th century. Doublet of faith and fidelity.

## AI Etymology
Confide is from Middle Scots confide, confyde (“to put trust in”), from Latin confīdere (“to put trust in, have confidence in”), from con- (“together”) + fidēre (“to trust”). First attested in English use in the early 17th century. Doublet of faith and fidelity. The analysis is mainly morphological: the modern verbal form is built from the named base and affix. In present-day use, it can mean to tell someone a secret or private matter because you trust them, or to share your private thoughts with someone you trust. Related forms include confidant, confidante, confidence, confident, confidential. Derived formations include confidable, confidee, confider, confiding, misconfide.

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