confuto

See also: confutò

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /konˈfu.to/
• Rhymes: -uto
• Hyphenation: con‧fù‧to

Verb

confuto

1. first-person singular present indicative of confutare

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *ḱe?

Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm

Proto-Italic *kom

Proto-Italic *kom-

Latin con-

Latin *fūtō

Latin cōnfūtō

From con- + *fūtō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kõːˈfuː.toː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [koɱˈfuː.to]

Verb

cōnfūtō (present infinitive cōnfūtāre, perfect active cōnfūtāvī, supine cōnfūtātum); first conjugation

1. to suppress, restrain, check
2. to repress, diminish, impede, destroy
3. to refute, confute, disprove
4. to convict

Conjugation

   Conjugation of cōnfūtō (first conjugation)

indicative		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	cōnfūtō		cōnfūtās		cōnfūtat		cōnfūtāmus		cōnfūtātis		cōnfūtant
	imperfect	cōnfūtābam		cōnfūtābās		cōnfūtābat		cōnfūtābāmus		cōnfūtābātis		cōnfūtābant
	future	cōnfūtābō		cōnfūtābis		cōnfūtābit		cōnfūtābimus		cōnfūtābitis		cōnfūtābunt
	perfect	cōnfūtāvī		cōnfūtāvistī		cōnfūtāvit		cōnfūtāvimus		cōnfūtāvistis		cōnfūtāvērunt, cōnfūtāvēre
	pluperfect	cōnfūtāveram		cōnfūtāverās		cōnfūtāverat		cōnfūtāverāmus		cōnfūtāverātis		cōnfūtāverant
	future perfect	cōnfūtāverō		cōnfūtāveris		cōnfūtāverit		cōnfūtāverimus		cōnfūtāveritis		cōnfūtāverint
passive	present	cōnfūtor		cōnfūtāris, cōnfūtāre		cōnfūtātur		cōnfūtāmur		cōnfūtāminī		cōnfūtantur
	imperfect	cōnfūtābar		cōnfūtābāris, cōnfūtābāre		cōnfūtābātur		cōnfūtābāmur		cōnfūtābāminī		cōnfūtābantur
	future	cōnfūtābor		cōnfūtāberis, cōnfūtābere		cōnfūtābitur		cōnfūtābimur		cōnfūtābiminī		cōnfūtābuntur
	perfect	cōnfūtātus + present active indicative of sum
	pluperfect	cōnfūtātus + imperfect active indicative of sum
	future perfect	cōnfūtātus + future active indicative of sum
subjunctive		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	cōnfūtem		cōnfūtēs		cōnfūtet		cōnfūtēmus		cōnfūtētis		cōnfūtent
	imperfect	cōnfūtārem		cōnfūtārēs		cōnfūtāret		cōnfūtārēmus		cōnfūtārētis		cōnfūtārent
	perfect	cōnfūtāverim		cōnfūtāverīs		cōnfūtāverit		cōnfūtāverīmus		cōnfūtāverītis		cōnfūtāverint
	pluperfect	cōnfūtāvissem		cōnfūtāvissēs		cōnfūtāvisset		cōnfūtāvissēmus		cōnfūtāvissētis		cōnfūtāvissent
passive	present	cōnfūter		cōnfūtēris, cōnfūtēre		cōnfūtētur		cōnfūtēmur		cōnfūtēminī		cōnfūtentur
	imperfect	cōnfūtārer		cōnfūtārēris, cōnfūtārēre		cōnfūtārētur		cōnfūtārēmur		cōnfūtārēminī		cōnfūtārentur
	perfect	cōnfūtātus + present active subjunctive of sum
	pluperfect	cōnfūtātus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum
imperative		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	—		cōnfūtā		—		—		cōnfūtāte		—
	future	—		cōnfūtātō		cōnfūtātō		—		cōnfūtātōte		cōnfūtantō
passive	present	—		cōnfūtāre		—		—		cōnfūtāminī		—
	future	—		cōnfūtātor		cōnfūtātor		—		—		cōnfūtantor
non-finite forms		infinitive						participle
		active			passive			active			passive
present		cōnfūtāre			cōnfūtārī			cōnfūtāns			—
future		cōnfūtātūrum esse			cōnfūtātum īrī			cōnfūtātūrus			cōnfūtandus
perfect		cōnfūtāvisse			cōnfūtātum esse			—			cōnfūtātus
future perfect		—			cōnfūtātum fore			—			—
perfect potential		cōnfūtātūrum fuisse			—			—			—
verbal nouns		gerund								supine
		genitive		dative		accusative		ablative		accusative		ablative
		cōnfūtandī		cōnfūtandō		cōnfūtandum		cōnfūtandō		cōnfūtātum		cōnfūtātū

Descendants

• → Catalan: confutar
• → Dutch: confuteren
• → Galician: confutar
• → German: konfutieren
• → Italian: confutare
• → Middle French: confuter
  • French: confuter
  • → English: confute
• → Portuguese: confutar
• → Spanish: confutar

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^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to refute arguments: argumenta refellere, confutare