fateri (general term and presumes that one is asked): confiteri: profiteri (confiteri signifies to confess what one can not conceal any longer; e.g., a crime, a fault, etc.; profiteri, to confess of one’s own accord, to disclose without fear, etc., hence frequently combined with prae se ferre: ☞ Cic., Caecin: 9, 24: confitetur, atque ita libenter confitetur, ut non solum fateri, sed etiam profiteri videatur. Rab. Perd., 5, 17. fateor, atque etiam profiteor, et prae me fero): not to confess, celare (to conceal); negare (to deny); infitias ire: infitiari (to deny a fact): to confess freely, openly, sincerely, aperte, ingenue, aperte et ingenue confiteri; libere profiteri: to confess to a priest, “peccata sua sacerdoti confiteri; *peccatorum suorum confessionem ad sacrorum interpretem deferre: to confess Christ, *Christum sequi; *doctrinam Christianam profiteri: It is confessed, constat; omnes sciunt, nemo ignorat; inter omnes constat.