confiteor
See also: Confiteor
English
Etymology
From Latin cōnfiteor (“I confess”), the first word of the prayer and used as its title in Ecclesiastical Latin. Doublet of confess.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: kən-fĭʹ-tē-ôr or kŏn-, -fē-, IPA(key): /kənˈfɪtiɔː/, /kɒn-/, /-fiː-/
- Hyphenation: con‧fi‧te‧or, con‧fi‧teor
Noun
confiteor (plural confiteors)
- (Christianity, chiefly Roman Catholicism) A prayer, typically beginning “I confess to Almighty God…” in English, in which public confession of sins is made.
- 1967, The Saturday Evening Post, volume 240, page 80:
- “Pugh!” she said. “You are disgusting! Go into the chapel now and say a confiteor each for your sin.”
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Latin
Etymology
From con- + fateor (“acknowledge, own (up to)”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /konˈfi.te.or/, [kõːˈfɪt̪eɔr]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /konˈfi.te.or/, [koɱˈfiːt̪eor]
Verb
cōnfiteor (present infinitive cōnfitērī or cōnfitērier, perfect active cōnfessus sum); second conjugation, deponent
- I confess, admit
- Synonym: profiteor
- Confiteor Deo omnipotenti...
- I confess to almighty God...
- I acknowledge, agree
- (figuratively) I reveal, show.
- (Ecclesiastical Latin) I praise, give thanks.
- Confitemini Domino quoniam bonus, quoniam in saeculum misericordia eius.
- Give praise to Lord, for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever.
Conjugation
| Conjugation of cōnfiteor (second conjugation, deponent) | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| indicative | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | cōnfiteor | cōnfitēris, cōnfitēre | cōnfitētur | cōnfitēmur | cōnfitēminī | cōnfitentur |
| imperfect | cōnfitēbar | cōnfitēbāris, cōnfitēbāre | cōnfitēbātur | cōnfitēbāmur | cōnfitēbāminī | cōnfitēbantur | |
| future | cōnfitēbor | cōnfitēberis, cōnfitēbere | cōnfitēbitur | cōnfitēbimur | cōnfitēbiminī | cōnfitēbuntur | |
| perfect | cōnfessus + present active indicative of sum | ||||||
| pluperfect | cōnfessus + imperfect active indicative of sum | ||||||
| future perfect | cōnfessus + future active indicative of sum | ||||||
| subjunctive | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | cōnfitear | cōnfiteāris, cōnfiteāre | cōnfiteātur | cōnfiteāmur | cōnfiteāminī | cōnfiteantur |
| imperfect | cōnfitērer | cōnfitērēris, cōnfitērēre | cōnfitērētur | cōnfitērēmur | cōnfitērēminī | cōnfitērentur | |
| perfect | cōnfessus + present active subjunctive of sum | ||||||
| pluperfect | cōnfessus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum | ||||||
| imperative | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | — | cōnfitēre | — | — | cōnfitēminī | — |
| future | — | cōnfitētor | cōnfitētor | — | — | cōnfitentor | |
| non-finite forms | active | passive | |||||
| present | perfect | future | present | perfect | future | ||
| infinitives | cōnfitērī, cōnfitērier1 | cōnfessum esse | cōnfessūrum esse | — | — | — | |
| participles | cōnfitēns | cōnfessus | cōnfessūrus | — | — | cōnfitendus | |
| verbal nouns | gerund | supine | |||||
| genitive | dative | accusative | ablative | accusative | ablative | ||
| cōnfitendī | cōnfitendō | cōnfitendum | cōnfitendō | cōnfessum | cōnfessū | ||
1The present passive infinitive in -ier is a rare poetic form which is attested.
Derived terms
- cōnfessiō
- cōnfessor
- cōnfessus
Related terms
- diffiteor
- fateor
- prōfiteor
Descendants
- → English: confiteor
- Old French: confesser
- → Middle English: confessen
- English: confess
- Middle French: confesser
- French: confesser
- → Middle English: confessen
- Italian: confessare
- Portuguese: confessar
- Spanish: confesar, confíteor
References
- “confiteor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “confiteor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- confiteor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette