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English
Etymology
From Latin cōnfessiō. Doublet of confession.
Noun
confessio (plural confessiones)
- (law) A confession; a defense of one's faith, or a confession of guilt.
Derived terms
Latin
Etymology
From cōnfiteor (“to confess, to acknowledge”) + -tiō.
Pronunciation
Noun
cōnfessiō f (genitive cōnfessiōnis); third declension
- a confession, acknowledgment
- (Ecclesiastical Latin) creed or avowal of one's faith
- (Ecclesiastical Latin) confession (disclosure of one's sins to a priest in order to receive absolution from God)
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “confessio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “confessio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- confessio in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- confessio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- confessio in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
- “confessio”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin