confessar

Betekenis (Engels)

(transitive) to confess; to own up to; to admit to (to admit one has done something, especially something bad)
(intransitive, transitive) to confess (to disclose one’s sins to a clergyman)
(transitive) to confess (to hear someone’s confessions)
(transitive) to confess; to follow (to have a given religion or set of beliefs)

admitir

professar

Frekwensie

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/kõ.feˈsa(ʁ)/

From Old Galician-Portuguese confessar, from Ecclesiastical Latin cōnfessāre (“to confess”) (possibly an inheritance), a derivative of Latin cōnfessus, past participle of cōnfiteor (“to confess, to admit”) from con- + fateor (“to admit”).