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発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: /konˈfir.moː/, [kõːˈfɪrmoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /konˈfir.mo/, [koɱˈfirmo]

動詞

cōnfirmō (present infinitive cōnfirmāre, perfect active cōnfirmāvī, supine cōnfirmātum); first conjugation

1. to make firm, establish, re-establish, strengthen, fortify, mature, confirm

   Synonyms: firmō, mūniō, fortificō, cōnsolidō, immunīo, fulciō, sistō

   Antonyms: dēterō, atterō, effēminō, minuō, frangō, tenuō, afficiō

   • 405 CE, Jerome, Vulgate Proverbs.15.22:

     Dissipantur cōgitātiōnēs ubi nōn est cōnsilium: ubi vērō plūrēs sunt cōnsiliāriī, cōnfirmantur.

     Designs are brought to nothing where there is no counsel: but where there are many counsellors, they are established.
     (Douay-Rheims trans., Challoner rev.: 1752 CE)

2. to encourage, animate, embolden; persuade

   Synonym: firmō

   Antonyms: deficiō, prōflīgō, dēfatīgō

3. (by extension) to demonstrate, corroborate, support, prove or confirm the truth of something; assert, affirm

Conjugation

At least one rare poetic syncopated perfect form is attested.

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参照

• “confirmo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “confirmo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• confirmo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to quote precedents for a thing: aliquid exemplis probare, comprobare, confirmare
    
  • to prove a thing indisputably: argumentis confirmare, comprobare, evincere aliquid (or c. Acc. c. Inf.)
    
  • to strengthen, confirm a person's courage: animum alicuius confirmare
    
  • to strengthen a person in his hopes: spem alicuius confirmare
    
  • to weaken, destroy a man's credit: fidem alicuius imminuere, infirmare (opp. confirmare)
    
  • to encourage, embolden the soldiery: animos militum confirmare (B. G. 5. 49)