confessor
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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- confessour (obsolete)
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English confessor, confessour, from Anglo-Norman confessour, and its source, Latin cōnfessor, from cōnfiteor (“confess, admit, acknowledge”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /kənˈfɛsə/, /ˈkɒnfɛs(ɔ)ə/, /ˈkɒnfɛsɔː/
- (General American) IPA(key): /kənˈfɛsɚ/
- Rhymes: -ɛsə(ɹ)
Noun[edit]
confessor (plural confessors, feminine confessoress)
- One who confesses faith in Christianity in the face of persecution, but who is not martyred.
- 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 174:
- Confessors provided the troubled Church with an alternative sort of authority based on their sufferings, particularly when arguments began about how and how much to forgive those Christians who had given way to imperial orders – the so-called ‘lapsed’.
- 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 174:
- One who confesses to having done something wrong.
- (Roman Catholicism) A priest who hears confession and then gives absolution
Translations[edit]
one who confesses
one who confesses faith in Christianity
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priest who hears confession
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References[edit]
Beccari, C. (1908) The Catholic Encyclopedia[1], New York: Robert Appleton Company, retrieved May 24, 2009, Confessor
Latin[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical) IPA(key): /konˈfes.sor/, [kõːˈfɛs̠ːɔr]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /konˈfes.sor/, [koɱˈfɛsːor]
Noun[edit]
cōnfessor m (genitive cōnfessōris); third declension
Declension[edit]
Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | cōnfessor | cōnfessōrēs |
Genitive | cōnfessōris | cōnfessōrum |
Dative | cōnfessōrī | cōnfessōribus |
Accusative | cōnfessōrem | cōnfessōrēs |
Ablative | cōnfessōre | cōnfessōribus |
Vocative | cōnfessor | cōnfessōrēs |
Descendants[edit]
- Catalan: confessor
- English: confessor
- French: confesseur
- Italian: confessore
- Portuguese: confessor
- Spanish: confesor
References[edit]
- “confessor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- confessor 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)
Portuguese[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Latin confessōrem.
Noun[edit]
confessor m (plural confessores, feminine confessora, feminine plural confessoras)
- (religion) confessor (one who confesses faith in a religion, especially Christianity)
- (Roman Catholicism) confessor (priest who hears confession)
Spanish[edit]
Noun[edit]
confessor m (plural confessores)
- Obsolete spelling of confesor
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