confuto

See also: confutò

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /konˈfu.to/
  • Rhymes: -uto
  • Hyphenation: con‧fù‧to

Verb

confuto

  1. first-person singular present indicative of confutare

Latin

Etymology

From con- +‎ *fūtō.

Pronunciation

Verb

cōnfūtō (present infinitive cōnfūtāre, perfect active cōnfūtāvī, supine cōnfūtātum); first conjugation

  1. to suppress, restrain, check
  2. to repress, diminish, impede, destroy
  3. to refute, confute, disprove
  4. to convict

Conjugation

Descendants

  • English: confute
  • Dutch: confuteren
  • French: confuter
  • German: konfutieren
  • Italian: confutare
  • Spanish: confutar

References

  • confuto”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • confuto”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • confuto in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to refute arguments: argumenta refellere, confutare