confitebatur
Dictionary entries
- 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;
sg. imperf. ind. 3rd
Examples
- A
Liber XII
Aulus Gellius
"...clam datis uita interfecerat atque id fecisse se confitebatur dicebatque habuisse se faciendi causam, quoniam idem illi maritus..." - M
X
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from DECLAMATIONES MAIORES
"...inter cineres verba clusisse. hoc tamen subinde respiciens confitebatur: 'repugnat umbra, itaque carminibus non satis credo; praefigamus omne..."