confiteretur
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. subj. 3rd
Examples
Liber VIII
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...admirationem suam non adclamatione tantum sed etiam plausu confiteretur? sublimitas profecto et magnificentia et nitor et auctoritas expressit..."Liber I
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger) from EPISTVLARVM LIBRI DECEM
"...Respondi nunc me intellegere maligne dictum quia ipse confiteretur, ceterum potuisse honorificum existimari. 'Est enim' inquam 'mihi..."