The word "confide" has two distinct meanings. The first is to tell or impart something in confidence or secretly to another and the second is to give something into another's responsible care.
Confide as a word is from the Middle English and originally meant "to rely on". It had been borrowed from the Old French word "confider" which itself was derived from the Latin word "confidere" which meant something like "to trust intensively". The word has at its origin Indo European roots.
For example in its function of "telling something confidentially" it can be used thus: "Johnny used to confide all his problems to Jenna", in its sense of "entrusting something" it can be used thus: "lawyers usually confer all the pro bono work to their juniors".
Confide as a word is from the Middle English and originally meant "to rely on". It had been borrowed from the Old French word "confider" which itself was derived from the Latin word "confidere" which meant something like "to trust intensively". The word has at its origin Indo European roots.
For example in its function of "telling something confidentially" it can be used thus: "Johnny used to confide all his problems to Jenna", in its sense of "entrusting something" it can be used thus: "lawyers usually confer all the pro bono work to their juniors".
