confutata

Confutata is the feminine singular past participle of the Italian verb confutare, meaning to refute or disprove. It functions as an adjective or a past participle and is used to describe something that has been shown to be false or inadequate. It agrees with nouns in gender and number: una tesi confutata (a refuted thesis), due tesi confutate (two refuted theses), le tesi confutate (the refuted theses).

In standard Italian, confutata appears in academic, legal, and public discourse to indicate that a claim, argument, theory, or piece of evidence has been discredited by further reasoning or data. It is often encountered in scientific critique, philosophical debate, and judicial opinion writing. The form is typically complemented by the related noun confutazione or confutamento to denote the act or process of refuting.

Etymology traces confutata to the Latin confutāre, meaning to refute or to prove false, and its Italian derivatives maintain that sense. While confutata is a common adjectival form, the noun most often used for the act of refuting is confutazione, with confutazione or confutamento serving as standard terms in discourse on argumentation.

See also: confutare, confutazione, réfutatio (Latin), refutazione.