confés
Catalan
Etymology
Pronunciation
Adjective
confés (feminine confessa, masculine plural confessos, feminine plural confesses)
- confessed, admitted
- 1951, Maurici Serrahima, Un advocat del segle XIX: Maurici Serrahima i Palà (1834-1904):
- En una ocasió, per defensar un home convicte i confés d'haver fet trampes en el joc, al·legà que en aquell cas havia estat convingut que el joc consistiria a fer trampes i a veure si l'altre les descobriria.
- On one occasion, in order to defend a convicted man who'd admitted to having cheated in the game, he alleged that in that case he'd been convinced that the game consisted of cheating and seeing if the other person could catch him at it.
Noun
confés m (plural confessos)
- (Roman Catholicism) confessor (priest who hears confessions)
Related terms
Further reading
- “confés”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
Old French
Alternative forms
- confes, cunfés, cunfes
Etymology
Adjective
confés m (oblique and nominative feminine singular confesse)
- (Christianity) confessed (having confessed one's sins)
Noun
confés oblique singular, m (oblique plural confés, nominative singular confés, nominative plural confés)
- (Christianity) confession (of one's sins)