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Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /konˈfu.to/
- Rhymes: -uto
- Hyphenation: con‧fù‧to
Verb
confuto
- first-person singular present indicative of confutare
Latin
Etymology
From con- + *fūtō.
Pronunciation
Verb
cōnfūtō (present infinitive cōnfūtāre, perfect active cōnfūtāvī, supine cōnfūtātum); first conjugation
- to suppress, restrain, check
- to repress, diminish, impede, destroy
- to refute, confute, disprove
- to convict
Conjugation
Descendants
References
- “confuto”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “confuto”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- confuto in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to refute arguments: argumenta refellere, confutare