The corpus record — Latin

fateor

to confess

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Distribution

De Est et Non, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 58.82/10k
De Herediolo 1 · 44.84/10k
Carmina Omnia 1 · 39.06/10k
Fescinnina de nuptiis Honorii Augusti 1 · 18.25/10k
Pro A. Caecina 13 · 12.52/10k
Achilleis 9 · 12.49/10k
Ausonii de XII Caesaribus per Suetonium Tranquillum scriptis 1 · 11.76/10k
Aulularia 8 · 11.58/10k
Ex Ponto 22 · 10.6/10k
Griphus Ternarii numeri 1 · 9.35/10k
Panegyricus dictus Manlio Theodoro consuli 2 · 9.3/10k
de consulatu Stilichonis 7 · 9.23/10k

Densest 12 of 178 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

Senses

fătĕor — Lewis & Short

to confess

Attestations

fateri Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 14.9.7
faterentur Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 15.3.6
fatebitur Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 16.12.51
fateor Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 20.8.9
fatendum Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 22.4.2
faterentur Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 24.7.5

6 of 1,052 attestations shown.

Deep etymology

Authority pointers, pending review

These are the etymology authorities that treat this word, with their exact locators. They are bibliographic pointers, not a published word history: no root, reconstruction, derivation, cognate, or origin is asserted here.

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine scan p. 243; entry #3758 Review: Under source audit

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