confit

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English[edit]

Duck confit

Etymology[edit]

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

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ˈkɒnfiː/
  • (file)

Noun[edit]

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[edit]

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[1]:
      I came up with a menu to showcase the alliums in several manifestations: raw, quickly sautéed and slowly confited.

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Further reading[edit]

French[edit]

Etymology[edit]

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

Pronunciation[edit]

Adjective[edit]

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

  1. (food) preserved, pickled

Derived terms[edit]

Noun[edit]

confit m (plural confits)

  1. confit

Participle[edit]

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

  1. past participle of confire

Verb[edit]

confit

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

Further reading[edit]

Latin[edit]

Verb[edit]

cōnfit

  1. third-person singular present active indicative of cōnfīō

References[edit]

  • 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