Lexica → Word → trust
Letter | T |
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Letter name | tee |
Pronounciation | /tiː/ |
Word: | trust |
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Pronounciation: | |
Century: | 12th |
DA Name: | trust |
Era: | C.E. |
Origin: | Original |
Type: | Official |
Source Language: | Latin |
Source Language Words: | From 12th Century Latin trausti = "an approved agreement, DEED, oath or alliance with/by the church". By 14th Century Old German trost, Dutch, troost, Norse traust all meaning "confidence, credit, belief, fidelity". |
Source Text: | |
Definition: | Its claimed origins from Old Norse is deliberately misleading. In its strictest sense, a trust is a fictional legal concept claimed to have independent existence--therefore a Trust does not exist unless some formal approval is given under the control of the Roman Cult is given to a particular agreement, deed, oath or alliance can be proven. |