confectus

Latin

Alternative forms

• cōnfactus

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of cōnficiō (“to prepare, bring about, finish, perform; to lessen, afflict”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kõːˈfɛk.tʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [koɱˈfɛk.tus]

Participle

cōnfectus (feminine cōnfecta, neuter cōnfectum); first/second-declension participle

1. prepared, accomplished, executed, having been accomplished
2. produced, caused, brought about, having been caused
3. finished, completed, having been finished
4. brought together, collected, having been collected
5. celebrated, having been celebrated
6. (philosophy) shown, demonstrated, having been shown
7. diminished, lessened, afflicted; worn out, exhausted
   • c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico 7.28:

     Aetāte cōnfectus

     Worn out by the year (an old man)

8. killed, having been killed

Declension

First/second-declension participle.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	cōnfectus	cōnfecta	cōnfectum		cōnfectī	cōnfectae	cōnfecta
genitive	cōnfectī	cōnfectae	cōnfectī		cōnfectōrum	cōnfectārum	cōnfectōrum
dative	cōnfectō	cōnfectae	cōnfectō		cōnfectīs
accusative	cōnfectum	cōnfectam	cōnfectum		cōnfectōs	cōnfectās	cōnfecta
ablative	cōnfectō	cōnfectā	cōnfectō		cōnfectīs
vocative	cōnfecte	cōnfecta	cōnfectum		cōnfectī	cōnfectae	cōnfecta

Descendants

• Asturian: confechu, ⇒ confechar
• >? Catalan: confit
• Old French: confit
  • French: confit
  • → English: confit, comfit
• Friulian: confet
• Italian: confetto
  • → English: confetto, confetti
  • → Portuguese: confete
  • → Russian: конфе́та (konféta) (see there for further descendants)
• Piedmontese: confet
• >? Portuguese: confeito
  • → Japanese: 金平糖(こんぺいとう) (konpeitō)
• Spanish: cohecho
• → English: confect
• → Polish: konfekt

References

• “confectus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “confectus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “confectus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to be worn out by old age: senectute, senio confectum esse
    
  • the question is settled, finished: res confecta est
    
  • weakened by wounds: vulneribus confectus