confessus

Latin

Etymology

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

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
• 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.