confessus

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Latin

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Etymology

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

Participle

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

  1. confessed, acknowledged

Declension

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First/second-declension adjective.

Descendants

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

References

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  • 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.