confessor

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English[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

From Middle English confessor, confessour, from Anglo-Norman confessour, and its source, Latin cōnfessor, from cōnfiteor (confess, admit, acknowledge).

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Noun[edit]

confessor (plural confessors, feminine confessoress)

  1. One who confesses faith in Christianity in the face of persecution, but who is not martyred.
    • 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 174:
      Confessors provided the troubled Church with an alternative sort of authority based on their sufferings, particularly when arguments began about how and how much to forgive those Christians who had given way to imperial orders – the so-called ‘lapsed’.
  2. One who confesses to having done something wrong.
  3. (Roman Catholicism) A priest who hears confession and then gives absolution

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References[edit]

Beccari, C. (1908) The Catholic Encyclopedia[1], New York: Robert Appleton Company, retrieved May 24, 2009, Confessor

Catalan[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Learned borrowing from Latin cōnfessōrem.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

confessor m (plural confessors, feminine confessora)

  1. (Christianity) confessor of the faith
  2. confessor (priest who hears confessions)
    Synonym: confés

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Latin[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

cōnfessor m (genitive cōnfessōris); third declension

  1. confessor of the Christian faith
  2. martyr

Declension[edit]

Third-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative cōnfessor cōnfessōrēs
Genitive cōnfessōris cōnfessōrum
Dative cōnfessōrī cōnfessōribus
Accusative cōnfessōrem cōnfessōrēs
Ablative cōnfessōre cōnfessōribus
Vocative cōnfessor cōnfessōrēs

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Portuguese[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Latin cōnfessōrem.

Pronunciation[edit]

 
 

  • Hyphenation: con‧fes‧sor

Noun[edit]

confessor m (plural confessores, feminine confessora, feminine plural confessoras)

  1. (religion) confessor (one who confesses faith in a religion, especially Christianity)
  2. (Roman Catholicism) confessor (priest who hears confession)

Spanish[edit]

Noun[edit]

confessor m (plural confessores)

  1. Obsolete spelling of confesor