confessus

Latin

Etymology

Perfect active participle of cōnfiteor (“I confess, acknowledge”).

Pronunciation

Participle

cōnfessus (feminine cōnfessa, neuter cōnfessum); first/second-declension participle

  1. confessed, acknowledged

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

singular plural
masculine feminine neuter masculine feminine neuter
nominative cōnfessus cōnfessa cōnfessum cōnfessī cōnfessae cōnfessa
genitive cōnfessī cōnfessae cōnfessī cōnfessōrum cōnfessārum cōnfessōrum
dative cōnfessō cōnfessae cōnfessō cōnfessīs
accusative cōnfessum cōnfessam cōnfessum cōnfessōs cōnfessās cōnfessa
ablative cōnfessō cōnfessā cōnfessō cōnfessīs
vocative cōnfesse cōnfessa cōnfessum cōnfessī cōnfessae cōnfessa

Descendants

  • Catalan: confés
  • Italian: confesso
  • Old French: confés, confes, cunfés, cunfes

References

  • “confessus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “confessus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • "confessus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • confessus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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