confectio

Latin

Alternative forms

• cōnfecciō (Medieval Latin)

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *ḱe?

Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm

Proto-Italic *kom

Proto-Italic *kom-

Latin con-

Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-

Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁k-

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *dʰh₁kyéti

Proto-Italic *θakjō

Proto-Italic *fakjō

Latin faciō

Latin cōnficiō

Proto-Indo-European *-tis

Proto-Indo-European *-Hō

Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō

Proto-Italic *-tiō

Latin -tiō

Latin cōnfectiō

From cōnficiō + -tiō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kõːˈfɛk.ti.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [koɱˈfɛk.t͡si.o]

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.

	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, 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.