confessio

English

Noun

confessio (plural confessiones)

  1. (law) A confession; A defense of one's faith, or a confession of guilt.

Latin

Etymology

From confiteor (“to confess, to acknowledge”) +‎ -tiō.

Pronunciation

Noun

cōnfessiō f (genitive cōnfessiōnis); third declension

  1. a confession, acknowledgment
  2. (ecclesiastical) creed or avowal of one's faith

Inflection

Third declension.

Case Singular Plural
nominative cōnfessiō cōnfessiōnēs
genitive cōnfessiōnis cōnfessiōnum
dative cōnfessiōnī cōnfessiōnibus
accusative cōnfessiōnem cōnfessiōnēs
ablative cōnfessiōne cōnfessiōnibus
vocative cōnfessiō cōnfessiōnēs

Descendants

References

  • confessio in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • confessio in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • confessio in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
  • confessio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
  • confessio in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
  • confessio in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.