confessio

Latin cōnfessiō. Doublet of confession.

confessio (plural confessiones)

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

• confessio amantis

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

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

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)

Third-declension noun.

• cōnfessor
• cōnfiteor

• “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, 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