confirmo
See also: confirmó
Catalan
Pronunciation
Galician
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /konˈfir.moː/, [kõːˈfɪrmoː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /konˈfir.mo/, [koɱˈfirmo]
Verb
cōnfirmō (present infinitive cōnfirmāre, perfect active cōnfirmāvī, supine cōnfirmātum); first conjugation
- to make firm, establish, re-establish, strengthen, fortify, mature, confirm
- Synonyms: firmō, mūniō, fortificō, cōnsolidō, immunīo, sistō
- Antonyms: dēterō, atterō, effēminō, minuō, frangō, tenuō, afficiō
- to encourage, animate, embolden; persuade
- (by extension) to demonstrate, corroborate, support, prove or confirm the truth of something; assert, affirm
Conjugation
1At least one rare poetic syncopated perfect form is attested.
Derived terms
- cōnfirmātiō
- cōnfirmātor
- cōnfirmātus
- cōnfirmātē
- cōnfirmātīvus
Related terms
- affirmō
- circumfirmō
- cōnfirmātrīx
- cōnfirmātīvē
- firmō
- offirmō
- īnfirmō
Descendants
References
- “confirmo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “confirmo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- confirmo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to quote precedents for a thing: aliquid exemplis probare, comprobare, confirmare
- to prove a thing indisputably: argumentis confirmare, comprobare, evincere aliquid (or c. Acc. c. Inf.)
- to strengthen, confirm a person's courage: animum alicuius confirmare
- to strengthen a person in his hopes: spem alicuius confirmare
- to weaken, destroy a man's credit: fidem alicuius imminuere, infirmare (opp. confirmare)
- to encourage, embolden the soldiery: animos militum confirmare (B. G. 5. 49)
- to quote precedents for a thing: aliquid exemplis probare, comprobare, confirmare
Portuguese
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /konˈfiɾmo/ [kõɱˈfiɾ.mo]
- Rhymes: -iɾmo
- Syllabification: con‧fir‧mo
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