confuto

confuto

See also: confutò

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /konˈfu.to/
  • Rhymes: -uto
  • Hyphenation: con‧fù‧to

Verb

confuto

  1. first-person singular present indicative of confutare

Latin

Etymology

    From con- + *fūtō.

    Pronunciation

    Verb

    cōnfūtō (present infinitive cōnfūtāre, perfect active cōnfūtāvī, supine cōnfūtātum); first conjugation

    1. to suppress, restrain, check
    2. to repress, diminish, impede, destroy
    3. to refute, confute, disprove
    4. to convict

    Conjugation

    Descendants

    • Catalan: confutar
    • Dutch: confuteren
    • Galician: confutar
    • German: konfutieren
    • Italian: confutare
    • Middle French: confuter
    • Portuguese: confutar
    • Spanish: confutar

    References

    • confuto”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
    • confuto”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
    • confuto”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
    • Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
      • to refute arguments: argumenta refellere, confutare