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Latin
Etymology
Perfect passive participle of cōnficiō (“prepare, bring about, finish, perform”).
Participle
cōnfectus (feminine cōnfecta, neuter cōnfectum); first/second-declension participle
- prepared, accomplished, executed, having been accomplished
- produced, caused, brought about, having been caused
- finished, completed, having been finished
- brought together, collected, having been collected
- celebrated, having been celebrated
- (philosophy) shown, demonstrated, having been shown
- (figuratively) diminished, lessened; destroyed, killed; worn out, exhausted; having been killed
- Synonyms: fessus, frāctus, dēfessus, languidus
- Antonym: vīvus
- Aetate confectus ― Worn out by the year (an old man) (Caesar, de Bello Gallico, VII, 28)
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “confectus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “confectus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- confectus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to be worn out by old age: senectute, senio confectum esse
- the question is settled, finished: res confecta est
- weakened by wounds: vulneribus confectus