confit

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English

Duck confit

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French confit, past participle of confire (“to preserve”), from Latin cōnficiō (perfect passive participle cōnfectus). Doublet of comfit, confect, confetto, and konfyt.

Pronunciation

Noun

confit (countable and uncountable, plural confits)

  1. Any of various kinds of food that have been immersed in a substance for both flavor and preservation.
    • 2012, M.V. Kunda, Ed Im, Kunda Eats Best New Restaurants in America, 2012 edition, New York, N.Y.: Vayu Publishing, →ISBN, page 110:
      Korean classics such as pajeon, bibimbap and mandoo are re-imagined with ingredients like cauliflower ricotta, fennel kimchi, and king oyster mushroom confit.

Verb

confit (third-person singular simple present confits, present participle confiting, simple past and past participle confited)

  1. (transitive) To prepare (food) in this manner.
    • 2008 June 18, Melissa Clark, “A Garlic Festival Without a Single Clove”, in New York Times‎:
      I came up with a menu to showcase the alliums in several manifestations: raw, quickly sautéed and slowly confited.

Further reading

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French , inherited from Latin cōnfectus, the past participle of conficiō (whence confire).

Pronunciation

Adjective

confit (feminine confite, masculine plural confits, feminine plural confites)

  1. (food) preserved, pickled

Derived terms

Noun

confit m (plural confits)

  1. confit

Participle

confit (feminine confite, masculine plural confits, feminine plural confites)

  1. past participle of confire

Verb

confit

  1. inflection of confire:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. third-person singular past historic

Further reading

Latin

Verb

cōnfit

  1. third-person singular present active indicative of cōnfīō

References

  • “confit”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • confit in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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