confetto

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See also: confettò

English

Etymology

From Italian confetto. Doublet of comfit, confect, confit, and konfyt.

Pronunciation

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Noun

confetto (plural confetti)

  1. (rare) A single piece of confetti; singular of confetti.
    • 1931, Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Punch, volume 181, page 260:
      I cast a confetto or two at the happy pair.
    • 1993, Outerbridge, page 49:
      She fluttered her hand at a confetto of cigarette ash, knocking it from her black soft sweater to the thigh of her black jeans where it lay unmolested.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:confetto.

Italian

Etymology 1

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From Latin cōnfectum, cōnfectus.

Noun

confetto m (plural confetti)

  1. sugar-coated almond
  2. sugar-coated pill
Descendants
  • → Portuguese: confete
  • → Russian: конфе́та (konféta) (see there for further descendants)

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

confetto

  1. first-person singular present indicative of confettare
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