confiteor, confiteris, confiteri E, confessus sum (Dep.) Verb

Translations

  1. to confess (w/ACC)
  2. to admit
  3. to acknowledge
  4. to reveal
  5. to disclose

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E-Conjugation (2)

This is a deponent verb. It gave up ("deponere") its active forms (even though they still exist). Such verbs occur in passive voice but are translated in active voice.

For example: "loquor" (Form analysis: 1. Person Sg. Present Passive, "to say") translates to: "I say", NOT "I am said" because it is a deponent verb.

Tenses

Person Singular Plural
1.
2.
3.
Future subjunctive forms do not exist. The subjunctive only exists in the four other tenses.

Infinitives

Active Passive
Simult. (Present) confitereconfiteri
Anter. (Perfect) -confessum esse
Post. (Future) confessurum esseconfessum iri

Participles

Sg. Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nom.
Gen.
Dat.
Acc.
Voc.
Abl.
Pl. Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nom.
Gen.
Dat.
Acc.
Voc.
Abl.

Gerund

Gerund forms only exist in singular.

Sg. Gerund
Nom. confitere
Gen. confitendi
Dat. confitendo
Acc. confitendum
Voc. confitere
Abl. confitendo

Gerundive

Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nom.
Gen.
Dat.
Acc.
Voc.
Abl.

Imperatives & Supina

Singular Plural
Imperative confite!confitete!
Supinum
Type I confessum
Type II confessū

Example Sentences

Marcus Tullius Cicero

At si illa solum sanciret quae a Sulla essent data, tacerem, modo ipse se Sullanum esse confiteretur.

~ Cicero, De Lege Agraria III
L. Annaeus Seneca Maior

Omnia fecit, ut taceret, quae, ne confiteretur, etiam mori voluit.

~ Seneca the Elder, Liber VIII
L. Annaeus Seneca

p [21,1] Dimissis nunc praeceptoribus nostris incipiamus per nos moueri et a confessis transeamus ad dubia.

~ Seneca, Quaestiones Naturales II
Titus Livius

Tunc enim Hannibal et insimulabatur et deposcebatur; nunc ab nobis et confessio culpae exprimitur et ut a confessis res extemplo repetuntur.

~ Livy, Book XXI

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