confessi
Dictionary entries
- Entry →confessus, confessa, confessum:
Adjective · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
- Field:
- Government
admitted, acknowledged; generally admitted, manifest, obvious; confessed;
gen. sg. (m.)gen. sg. (n.)nom. pl. (m.)voc. pl. (m.) - Entry →confessum, confessi:
Neuter · Noun · 2nd declension
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
- Field:
- Government
acknowledged/generally admitted fact; substance of a confession;
gen. sg.loc. sg. - Entry →confessus, confessi:
Masculine · Noun · 2nd declension
- Frequency:
- Uncommon
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
- Field:
- Government
one who admits/confesses liability/crime;
gen. sg.loc. sg.nom. pl.voc. pl. - Entry →confiteor, confiteri, confessus sum:
Verb · 2nd conjugation · Deponent
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
confess (w/ACC), admit, acknowledge, reveal, disclose; concede, allow; denote;
gen. sg. perf. part.gen. sg. perf. part.nom. pl. perf. part.voc. pl. perf. part.
Examples
- A
Liber XX
Aulus Gellius
"...perfidia debitorum sine gravi poena eluderet. XLII. Confessi igitur aeris ac debiti iudicatis triginta dies sunt dati conquirendae..." - A
Liber IV
Aulus Gellius
"...populum proditique sunt et, cum de perfidia confessi essent, necati sunt, constititque eam statuam, proinde ut verae rationes..." - L
Liber II
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from QUAESTIONES NATURALES
"...praeceptoribus nostris incipiamus per nos moueri et a confessis transeamus ad dubia. Quid enim confessi est? Fulmen ignem..." - L
de Brevitate Vitae
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DIALOGI
"...scirent; plures tamen ex his nondum se scire confessi uita abierunt, nedum ut isti sciant. Magni, mihi crede..." - M
Liber VII
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...eius qui non adfuerit vituperatio. Adhuc versamur in confessis; redeat animus ad petitorem: numquid non hoc cogitet necesse..." - M
Liber I
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...maxima ex parte Romanus inde conversus est, et confessis quoque Graecis utimur verbis ubi nostra desunt, sicut illi..." - M
II
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from DECLAMATIONES MAIORES
"...relinquo prudentiae strepitum, quem in cubiculo senis fuisse confessi sunt, qui illo potissimum concurrerunt, utrum putetis factum conluctatione..." - M
In Catilinam IV
Marcus Tullius Cicero from Catilinarian Orations
"...calamitatem relinquatur. [5] Haec omnia indices detulerunt, rei confessi sunt, vos multis iam iudiciis iudicavistis, primum quod mihi..."
