confetto

See also: confettò

English

Etymology

Italian confetto. Doublet of comfit.

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.

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Italian

Etymology

From Latin cōnfectus.

Noun

confetto m (plural confetti)

1. sugar-coated almond
2. (by extension) a pellet of plaster, piece of paper, etc symbolizing such an almond, thrown during carnevale (“Carnival”) or other festivities
3. sugar-coated pill

Related terms

• confettini

Descendants

• → Russian: конфе́та (konféta)
  • → Armenian: կոնֆետ (konfet)
  • → Azerbaijani: konfet
  • → Bashkir: кәнфит (kənfit)
  • → Chechen: кемпет (kempet)
  • → Crimean Tatar: qanfet
  • → Georgian: კანფეტი (ḳanpeṭi)
  • → Ingush: конфет (konfet)
  • → Kazakh: кәмпит (kämpit)
  • → Kyrgyz: конфета (konfeta)
  • → Ossetian: къафетт (k’afett)
  • → Persian: کانفت (kânfet)
  • → Tajik: конфет (konfet)
  • → Tatar: кәнфит (känfit), конфет (qonfet)
  • → Ukrainian: конфе́та (konféta)
  • → Uzbek: konfet
  • → Uyghur: كەمپۈت (kempüt)
  • → Western Mari: кампеткӓ (kampetkä)
  • → Yakut: кэмпиэт (kempiet)

Verb

confetto

1. first-person singular present indicative of confettare