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
Liber XX
Aulus Gellius
"...perfidia debitorum sine gravi poena eluderet. XLII. Confessi igitur aeris ac debiti iudicatis triginta dies sunt dati conquirendae..."Liber IV
Aulus Gellius
"...populum proditique sunt et, cum de perfidia confessi essent, necati sunt, constititque eam statuam, proinde ut verae rationes..."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..."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..."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..."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..."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..."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..."
