entrust

English

Alternative forms

• intrust

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₁én

Proto-Italic *en

Proto-Italic *en-

Latin in-

Old French en-bor.

Middle English en-

English en-

English trust

English entrust

From en- + trust.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪnˈtɹʌst/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ʌst

Verb

entrust (third-person singular simple present entrusts, present participle entrusting, simple past and past participle entrusted)

1. (transitive) To trust to the care of.

   Synonyms: commend, commit, consign

   Can I entrust you with a secret?

   He entrusted me his daughter.

   He entrusts that task to her.

   • 1920, Carl D. Buck, “Hittite an Indo-European Language?”, in Classical Philology, volume 15, number 2, →DOI, page 185:

     The study of the main body of Hittite texts was intrusted^[sic] to the Austrian scholar Hrozny, who in 1915 published a preliminary account of his results […]

   • 2004, Geert Lovink, Uncanny Networks: Dialogues with the Virtual Intelligentsia, →ISBN, page 1742:

     The first step toward finding a way out of this place begins when we take a flamethrower to Newt Gingrich cum Alvin Toffler style laissez-faire futurism, which entrusts our collective fate to the tender mercies of the marketplace, or New Age cyberbole that would have us pin our hopes to a millennial blastoff.

Derived terms

• entrustee
• entrustment
• re-entrust

Translations

to trust to the care of

• Bulgarian: поверявам (bg) impf (poverjavam), поверя pf (poverja), доверявам impf (doverjavam), доверя pf (doverja)
• Catalan: confiar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 委託 / 委托 (zh) (wěituō), 託付 / 托付 (zh) (tuōfù)

• Danish: betro
• Dutch: toevertrouwen (nl)
• Esperanto: konfidi (eo), alkonfidi
• Finnish: antaa huostaan, antaa hoidettavaksi, antaa tehtäväksi
• French: confier (fr)
• German: anvertrauen (de)
• Gothic: 𐌲𐌰𐌻𐌰𐌿𐌱𐌾𐌰𐌽 (galaubjan)
• Greek: εμπιστεύομαι (el) (empistévomai)

  Ancient Greek: ἐπιτρέπω (epitrépō)

• Hungarian: bíz (hu), megbíz (hu)
• Ido: konfidar (io)
• Indonesian: mempercayakan (to entrust someone to do something), menitip (id) (to leave something to somebody)
• Irish: cuir in iontaoibh, lig ar iontaoibh le

  Old Irish: ad·noí

• Italian: confidare (it)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: سپاردن (spardin)

• Latin: commendō
• Latvian: uzticēt
• Lithuanian: patikėti
• Middle English: recomaunden, comaunden, recommenden
• Polish: powierzyć (pl)
• Portuguese: confiar (pt)
• Russian: доверя́ть (ru) impf (doverjátʹ), дове́рить (ru) pf (dovéritʹ)
• Spanish: encomendar (es), confiar (es)
• Swedish: anförtro (sv), ombetro, betro, förtro
• Telugu: ఒప్పగించు (te) (oppagiñcu)
• Turkish: emanet etmek (tr)

  Ottoman Turkish: اینانمق (inanmak)

• Ukrainian: довіря́ти impf (dovirjáty), дові́рити pf (dovíryty), доруча́ти impf (doručáty), доручи́ти pf (doručýty)
• Urdu: سَون٘پْنا (sa͠upnā), سَپُرْد کَرْنا (sapurd karnā)

Anagrams

• Ruttens, nutters, test run, testrun, turnest