confessar

Borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin cōnfessāre.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [kuɱ.fəˈsa]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [koɱ.fəˈsa]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [koɱ.feˈsaɾ]
• Rhymes: -a(ɾ)

confessar (first-person singular present confesso, first-person singular preterite confessí, past participle confessat); root stress: (Central, Valencian, Balearic) /e/

1. (transitive, intransitive) to confess
2. (takes a reflexive pronoun) to confess [+ amb (object) = to]

• confessable
• confessant

• confés
• confessió
• confessor

• “confessar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

From Ecclesiastical Latin confessō.

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confessar

1. to confess

• confession

• cõfessar (obsolete, abbreviation)

From Old Galician-Portuguese confessar, from Ecclesiastical Latin cōnfessāre (“to confess”) (possibly an inheritance), a derivative of Latin cōnfessus, past participle of cōnfiteor (“to confess, to admit”) from con- + fateor (“to admit”).

• Hyphenation: con‧fes‧sar

confessar (first-person singular present confesso, first-person singular preterite confessei, past participle confessado)

1. (transitive) to confess; to own up to; to admit to (to admit one has done something, especially something bad)

   Synonym: admitir

2. (religion, transitive or intransitive) to confess (to disclose one’s sins to a clergyman)
3. (religion, transitive) to confess (to hear someone’s confessions)
4. (chiefly religion, transitive) to confess; to follow (to have a given religion or set of beliefs)

   Synonym: seguir

• confessor
• confissão
• confissionário

• Macanese: cunfissâ