different between confess vs aver

English

Etymology

From Middle English confessen, from Anglo-Norman confesser, from Old French confesser, from Medieval Latin confess? (“I confess”), a derivative of Latin confessus (Old French confés), past participle of c?nfiteor (“I confess, I admit”) from con- + fateor (“I admit”). Displaced Middle English andetten (“to confess, admit”) (from Old English andettan).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?n?f?s/
• Rhymes: -?s

Verb

confess (third-person singular simple present confesses, present participle confessing, simple past and past participle confessed)

2. To admit to the truth, particularly in the context of sins or crimes committed.

   I confess to spray-painting all over that mural!

   I confess that I am a sinner.

   • I must confess I was most pleased with a beautiful prospect that none of them have mentioned.

3. To acknowledge faith in; to profess belief in.

   • Whosoever, therefore, shall confess me before men, him will I confess, also, before my Father which is in heaven.

   • For the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, neither angel, nor spirit; but the Pharisees confess both.

4. (religion) To unburden (oneself) of sins to God or a priest, in order to receive absolution.

   • Our beautiful votary took an opportunity of confessing herself to this celebrated father.

5. (religion) To hear or receive such a confession of sins from.
   • 1523–1525, John Bourchier, 2nd Baron Berners (translator), Froissart's Chronicles

     He […] heard mass, and the prince, his son, with him, and the most part of his company were confessed.

7. To disclose or reveal.

Derived terms

• fess, fess up

Related terms

• confession
• confessional
• confessor

Translations

See also

• own up
• come clean

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English averren (“to corroborate (a statement); to cite (something) as corroboration or proof; (law) to prove (something) in court; to declare (something) under oath as true; to prove (a case) by a jury’s oaths”) [and other forms], from Old French averer (modern French avérer (“to reveal, uncover; to prove (to be), transpire”)), from Late Latin *adv?r?re (“to make true; to prove to be true; to verify”), the present active infinitive of Late Latin *adv?r? (“to make true; to prove to be true”), from Latin ad- (prefix forming factitive verbs meaning ‘to make (something) have the properties of [the adjective or noun to which it is attached]’) + v?rus (“actual, real, true; genuine; proper, suitable; just, right”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *weh?- (“true”)) + -? (suffix forming regular first-conjugation verbs).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??v??/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /??v?/
• Rhymes: -??(?)

Verb

aver (third-person singular simple present avers, present participle averring or (obsolete) avering, simple past and past participle averred or (obsolete) avered)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To assert the truth of (something); to affirm (something) with confidence; to declare (something) in a positive manner.
2. (transitive, intransitive, law) To justify or prove (an allegation or plea that one has made).
3. (transitive, obsolete) To avouch, prove, or verify the existence or happening of (something), or to offer to do so.

Conjugation

Derived terms

• averrable
• averred (adjective)
• averrer

Related terms

• averment

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English aver, avere (“workhorse; any beast of burden (?); things which are owned, possessions, property, wealth; state of being rich, wealth; ownership, possession”) [and other forms], and then either:

• from Old French aver, aveir, avoir (“possession, property; (collectively) beasts of burden; domestic animals; cattle”) (modern French avoir (“asset, possession”)), from aveir, avoir (“to have”), from Latin hab?re, the present active infinitive of habe? (“to have, hold; to have, own (possessions)”), from Proto-Indo-European *g?eh?b?-, *??eh?b?- (“to grab, take”); or
• from Old English eafor (“workhorse; tenant’s obligation to transport goods”), further etymology uncertain.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?e?v?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?e?v?/
• Homophone: Ava

Noun

aver (plural avers)

1. (Britain, dialectal, archaic) A beast of burden; chiefly a workhorse, but also a working ox or other animal.
2. (Northern England, Scotland, dialectal, archaic) An old, useless horse; a nag.

References

Anagrams

• AVRE, Rave, Vera, evar, rave, vare, vera

Corsican

Verb

aver

1. Alternative form of avè

Italian

Alternative forms

• haver (obsolete spelling)

Verb

aver

1. Apocopic form of avere

Anagrams

• vera

Ladino

Etymology

From Old Spanish aver, from Latin habe? (“hold, have”).

Verb

aver (Latin spelling, Hebrew spelling ?????)

1. to have

Middle English

Etymology

From Old French aver, aveir, avoir (“possession, property; (collectively) beasts of burden; domestic animals; cattle”) (modern French avoir (“asset, possession”)), from aveir, avoir (“to have”), from Latin hab?re, the present active infinitive of habe? (“to have, hold; to have, own (possessions)”), from Proto-Indo-European *g?eh?b?-, *??eh?b?- (“to grab, take”).

Noun

aver (plural avers)

1. Belongings, possessions, property, wealth.

References

Norman

Alternative forms

• aveir (Guernsey)

Etymology

From Old French aveir, from Latin habe? (“have, hold, possess”).

Verb

aver

1. (Jersey, alternative form in Guernsey) to have

Conjugation

Derived terms

Occitan

Etymology

From Old Occitan aver, haver, from Latin habe? (“to have, hold, keep”).

Pronunciation

Verb

aver

1. to have; to possess

   Synonym: possedir

2. (auxiliary) to have

Conjugation

Derived terms

• aver luòc

Old French

Verb

aver

1. Alternative form of avoir

Noun

aver m (oblique plural avers, nominative singular avers, nominative plural aver)

1. Alternative form of avoir

Old Occitan

Alternative forms

• haver

Etymology

From Latin habe? (“to have, hold, keep”).

Verb

aver

1. to have; to possess

Descendants

• Catalan: haver
• Occitan: aver

Old Portuguese

Alternative forms

• haver (latinized form)

Etymology

From Latin habe? (“to have, to hold, to possess”), probably from a Proto-Italic *hab?? or *ha???, possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *g?h?b?- (“to grab, to take”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a??e?/

Verb

aver

1. to have

2. to exist

Conjugation

Descendants

• Galician: haber
• Portuguese: haver

Old Spanish

Etymology

From Latin habe? (“to have, hold, keep”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a???e??/

Verb

aver

1. to have

Descendants

• Ladino:

  Hebrew: ?????

  Latin: aver

• Spanish: haber

Portuguese

Verb

aver (first-person singular present indicative ei, past participle avido)

1. Obsolete spelling of haver

Conjugation

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Noun

aver m (plural averes)

1. Obsolete spelling of haver

Spanish

Verb

aver

1. Obsolete spelling of haber

Venetian

Alternative forms

• gaver

Etymology

From Latin habe?.

Verb

aver

1. (transitive) to have
2. (transitive) to possess

Conjugation

• Venetian conjugation varies from one region to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.

References

• Silvano Belloni (2009) Grammatica Veneta [Venetian Grammar]?^[3] (in Italian), Esedra Editrice, ?ISBN, page 75