confessio

See also: confessió

English

Etymology

From Latin cōnfessiō. Doublet of confession.

Noun

confessio (plural confessiones)

1. (law) A confession; a defense of one's faith, or a confession of guilt.

Derived terms

• confessio amantis

Latin

Etymology

From cōnfiteor (“to confess, to acknowledge”) +‎ -tiō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /konˈfes.si.oː/, [kõːˈfɛs̠ːioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /konˈfes.si.o/, [koɱˈfɛsːio]

Noun

cōnfessiō f (genitive cōnfessiōnis); third declension

1. a confession, acknowledgment
2. (Ecclesiastical Latin) creed or avowal of one's faith
3. (Ecclesiastical Latin) confession (disclosure of one's sins to a priest in order to receive absolution from God)

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	cōnfessiō	cōnfessiōnēs
genitive	cōnfessiōnis	cōnfessiōnum
dative	cōnfessiōnī	cōnfessiōnibus
accusative	cōnfessiōnem	cōnfessiōnēs
ablative	cōnfessiōne	cōnfessiōnibus
vocative	cōnfessiō	cōnfessiōnēs

Related terms

• cōnfessor
• cōnfiteor

Descendants

• → Catalan: confessió
• → English: confessio
• → Galician: confesión
• → Italian: confessione
• → Occitan: confession
• → Old French: confession
  • French: confession
    • → German: Konfession
    • → Romanian: confesiune
  • → Middle English: confessioun, confession, confessyon, confessyone, confessyown
    • English: confession
• → Old Irish: cobais
• → Portuguese: confissão
• → Russian: конфе́ссия (konféssija)
• → Spanish: confesión
• → Welsh: cyffes

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^[1], 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