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
Liber XII
Aulus Gellius
"...clam datis uita interfecerat atque id fecisse se confitebatur dicebatque habuisse se faciendi causam, quoniam idem illi maritus..."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..."