different between confessor vs confitent

English

Alternative forms

• confessour (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English confessor, confessour, from Anglo-Norman confessour, and its source, Latin c?nfessor, from c?nfiteor (“confess, admit, acknowledge”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /k?n?f?s?/, /?k?nf?s(?)?/, /?k?nf?s??/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /k?n?f?s?/
• Rhymes: -?s?(?)

Noun

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 2010, p. 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

Translations

References

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

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kon?fes.sor/, [kõ??f?s???r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kon?fes.sor/, [k?n?f?s??r]

Noun

c?nfessor m (genitive c?nfess?ris); third declension

1. confessor of the Christian faith
2. martyr

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Descendants

• Catalan: confessor
• English: confessor
• French: confesseur
• Italian: confessore
• Portuguese: confessor
• Spanish: confesor

References

• confessor in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• confessor in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin confessor.

Noun

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

Noun

confessor m (plural confessores)

1. Obsolete spelling of confesor

English

Etymology

Latin confitens, p.pr.

Noun

confitent (plural confitents)

1. A person who confesses; a confessor or penitent