confessor
English edit
Alternative forms edit
- confessour (obsolete)
Etymology edit
From Middle English confessor, confessour, from Anglo-Norman confessour, and its source, Latin cōnfessor, from cōnfiteor (“confess, admit, acknowledge”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /kənˈfɛsə/, /ˈkɒnfɛs(ɔ)ə/, /ˈkɒnfɛsɔː/
- (General American) IPA(key): /kənˈfɛsɚ/
- Rhymes: -ɛsə(ɹ)
Noun edit
confessor (plural confessors, feminine confessoress)
- One who confesses faith in Christianity in the face of persecution, but who is not martyred.
- 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 174:
- Confessors provided the troubled Church with an alternative sort of authority based on their sufferings, particularly when arguments began about how and how much to forgive those Christians who had given way to imperial orders – the so-called ‘lapsed’.
- One who confesses to having done something wrong.
- (Roman Catholicism) A priest who hears confession and then gives absolution
Derived terms edit
Translations edit
one who confesses
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one who confesses faith in Christianity
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priest who hears confession
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References edit
Beccari, C. (1908) The Catholic Encyclopedia[1], New York: Robert Appleton Company, retrieved May 24, 2009, Confessor
Catalan edit
Etymology edit
Learned borrowing from Latin cōnfessōrem.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
confessor m (plural confessors, feminine confessora)
- (Christianity) confessor of the faith
- confessor (priest who hears confessions)
- Synonym: confés
Related terms edit
Further reading edit
- “confessor” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Latin edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /konˈfes.sor/, [kõːˈfɛs̠ːɔr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /konˈfes.sor/, [koɱˈfɛsːor]
Noun edit
cōnfessor m (genitive cōnfessōris); third declension
Declension edit
Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | cōnfessor | cōnfessōrēs |
Genitive | cōnfessōris | cōnfessōrum |
Dative | cōnfessōrī | cōnfessōribus |
Accusative | cōnfessōrem | cōnfessōrēs |
Ablative | cōnfessōre | cōnfessōribus |
Vocative | cōnfessor | cōnfessōrēs |
Descendants edit
- Catalan: confessor
- English: confessor
- French: confesseur
- Italian: confessore
- Portuguese: confessor
- Spanish: confesor
References edit
- “confessor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- confessor 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)
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin cōnfessōrem.
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: con‧fes‧sor
Noun edit
confessor m (plural confessores, feminine confessora, feminine plural confessoras)
- (religion) confessor (one who confesses faith in a religion, especially Christianity)
- (Roman Catholicism) confessor (priest who hears confession)
Spanish edit
Noun edit
confessor m (plural confessores)