confectio

Latin

Alternative forms

• cōnfecciō (Medieval Latin)

Etymology

From cōnficiō +‎ -tiō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /konˈfek.ti.oː/, [kõːˈfɛkt̪ioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /konˈfek.t͡si.o/, [koɱˈfɛkt̪͡s̪io]

Noun

cōnfectiō f (genitive cōnfectiōnis); third declension

1. making, preparing, producing, arranging, composing, completing
2. that which is made etc.; confection

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	cōnfectiō	cōnfectiōnēs
Genitive	cōnfectiōnis	cōnfectiōnum
Dative	cōnfectiōnī	cōnfectiōnibus
Accusative	cōnfectiōnem	cōnfectiōnēs
Ablative	cōnfectiōne	cōnfectiōnibus
Vocative	cōnfectiō	cōnfectiōnēs

Descendants

• Inherited forms:
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: confeyçon
    • Galician: confeizón
    • Portuguese: confeição
• Ancient borrowings:
  • → Proto-Brythonic: *kufėθ
    • Cornish: kyfeyth
    • Middle Welsh: kyffeith
      • Welsh: cyffaith
• Learned borrowings:
  • → Catalan: confecció
  • → English: confection
  • → French: confection
  • → Italian: confezione
  • → Portuguese: confecção
  • → Romanian: confecție
  • → Spanish: confección

References

• “confectio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “confectio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• confectio in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• confectio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.