confessos
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;
acc. pl. (m.) - Entry →confessus, confessi:
Masculine · Noun · 2nd declension
- Frequency:
- Uncommon
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
- Field:
- Government
one who admits/confesses liability/crime;
acc. pl.nom. sg. - 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;
acc. pl. perf. part.
Examples
- L
Liber IX
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...divitias, imagines multas, frequens atrium, sed malus ex confesso sit, inprobabis illum; item si quis nihil quidem eorum..." - L
Liber III
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DE BENEFICIIS
"...tantum an receperint, sed an dederint, horum in confesso merita sunt, et, quia utile est iuuentuti regi, inposuimus..." - L
de Brevitate Vitae
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DIALOGI
"...stat. De istis me putas dicere, quorum in confesso mala sunt? Aspice illos ad quorum felicitatem concurritur:bonis..." - L
de Otio
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DIALOGI
"...quidem iam tenerentur omnia et in aperto et confesso ueritas esset nihilque ex decretis mutaremus! nunc ueritatem..." - M
Liber III
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...quae constet esse honesta et vituperare quae ex confesso sint turpia non est oratoris officium. IV. Illud..." - P
Metamorphoses VII
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...quoque muneribus, si munera tanta darentur. haec mihi confesso, laesum prius ulta pudorem, redditur et dulces concorditer exigit..." - P
Dialogus de Oratoribus
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from Minor Works
"...alio mavult nomine appellet, dum modo in confesso sit eminentiorem illorum temporum eloquentiam fuisse; ne illi quidem parti..."
