confiteor
See also: Confiteor
English
editEtymology
editFrom Latin cōnfiteor (“I confess”), the first word of the prayer and used as its title in Ecclesiastical Latin. Doublet of confess.
Pronunciation
edit- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: kən-fĭʹ-tē-ôr or kŏn-, -fē-, IPA(key): /kənˈfɪtiɔː/, /kɒn-/, /-fiː-/
- Hyphenation: con‧fi‧te‧or, con‧fi‧teor
Noun
editconfiteor (plural confiteors)
- (Christianity, chiefly Roman Catholicism) A prayer, typically beginning “I confess to Almighty God…” in English, in which public confession of sins is made.
- 1967, The Saturday Evening Post[1], volume 240, page 80:
- “Pugh!” she said. “You are disgusting! Go into the chapel now and say a confiteor each for your sin.”
Latin
editEtymology
editFrom con- + fateor (“acknowledge, own (up to)”).
Pronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /konˈfi.te.or/, [kõːˈfɪt̪eɔr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /konˈfi.te.or/, [koɱˈfiːt̪eor]
Verb
editcōnfiteor (present infinitive cōnfitērī or cōnfitērier, perfect active cōnfessus sum); second conjugation, deponent
- to confess, admit
- Synonym: profiteor
- Confiteor Deo omnipotenti...
- I confess to almighty God...
- to acknowledge, agree
- (figuratively) to reveal, show
- (Ecclesiastical Latin) to praise, give thanks
- Confitemini Domino quoniam bonus, quoniam in saeculum misericordia eius.
- Give praise to Lord, for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever.
Conjugation
edit1The present passive infinitive in -ier is a rare poetic form which is attested.
Derived terms
editRelated terms
editDescendants
editReferences
edit- “confiteor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “confiteor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- confiteor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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