confess的词源
英文词源
- confess
- confess: [14] Confess comes from Latin confitērī ‘acknowledge’. This was a compound verb formed from the intensive prefix com- and fatērī ‘admit’ (a relative of English fable, fame, and fate). Its past participle was confessus, and this was taken as the basis of a new Vulgar Latin verb *confessāre, which passed into English via Old French confesser.
=> fable, fame, fate - confess (v.)
- late 14c., from Old French confesser (transitive and intransitive), from Vulgar Latin *confessare, from Latin confess-, past participle stem of confiteri "to acknowledge," from com- "together" (see com-) + fateri "to admit," akin to fari "speak," from PIE root *bha- (2) "to speak, tell, say" (see fame (n.)).
Its original religious sense was of one who avows his religion in spite of persecution or danger but does not suffer martyrdom. Old French confesser thus had a figurative sense of "to harm, hurt, make suffer." Related: Confessed; confessing. An Old English word for it was andettan.
中文词源
con-, 强调。-fess, 说，交谈，词源同phone, profess.
该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版：confess 词源，confess 含义。
来源于拉丁语动词comfateri(承认)的过去分词confessus,comfateri由前缀com-(加强意义)和fateri(承认)组成。fateri 为拉丁语fari(说)的派生词。
-fe-说 → -fess-表白 词根词缀： con-共同 + -fess-表白
