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Latin
Etymology
From con- (“with, together”) + faciō (“do, make”). Compare condō from the same root.
Pronunciation
Verb
cōnficiō (present infinitive cōnficere, perfect active cōnfēcī, supine cōnfectum); third conjugation iō-variant
- to prepare, accomplish, complete, execute; settle, close a bargain; traverse
- Synonyms: perficiō, dēfungor, agō, expleō, patrō, cumulō, absolvō, efficiō, impleō, conclūdō, condō, exsequor, fungor, nāvō, perpetrō, trānsigō, prōflīgō, gerō, claudō, inclūdō, peragō, perferō, persolvō, exhauriō
- to produce, cause, bring about, effect, secure
- to finish, end, spend, pass, complete
- to procure, bring together, collect, produce, prepare
- Synonyms: confero, conveho, contraho
- to perform, celebrate
- (philosophy) to show, deduce, demonstrate
- (figuratively) to diminish, lessen, wear out, consume, exhaust
- Synonyms: abutor, perago, tero, effundo, accido, eneco
- to destroy, kill
- Synonyms: ēnecō, occīdō, interimō, caedō, obtruncō, necō, percutiō, interficiō, trucīdō, iugulō, sōpiō, perimō, peragō, dēiciō, tollō, absūmō, cōnsūmō
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References
- “conficio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “conficio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- conficio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to run its course in the sky: cursum conficere in caelo
- to freeze to death: frigore confici
- to accomplish a long journey: longam viam conficere
- to finish one's career: vitae cursum or curriculum conficere
- to die of starvation: fame confici, perire, interire
- to execute a commission: mandatum exsequi, persequi, conficere
- to arrange, settle a matter: negotium conficere, expedire, transigere
- to compose a speech: orationem conficere
- to compose, compile a book: librum conficere, componere (De Sen. 1. 2)
- to be wasted with grief; to die of grief: dolore confici, tabescere
- anxiety gnaws at the heart and incapacitates it: aegritudo exest animum planeque conficit (Tusc. 3. 13. 27)
- to be wasting away with grief: aegritudine, curis confici
- to be worn out, almost dead with anxiety: angoribus confici (Phil. 2. 15. 37)
- to digest food: cibum concoquere, conficere
- to settle, finish a transaction: negotium (rem) conficere, absolvere
- to keep the accounts (day-book) carefully: rationem diligenter conficere
- to raise an army: exercitum conficere (Imp. Pomp. 21. 61)
- to terminate a war (by force of arms and defeat of one's opponents): bellum conficere, perficere
- to traverse a route: iter conficere (B. C. 1. 70)
- to finish one's voyage: cursum conficere (Att. 5. 12. 1)
- conficio in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016