confit

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English

Etymology

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(deprecated template usage) Borrowed from French confit, past participle of confire (to preserve), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin cōnficere (perfect passive participle cōnfectus).

Noun

confit (plural confits)

  1. Any of various kinds of food that have been immersed in a substance for both flavor and preservation.

Verb

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.

French

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Adjective

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

  1. (food) preserved, pickled

Derived terms

Noun

confit m (plural confits)

  1. confit

Verb

confit

  1. past participle of confire
  2. third-person singular present indicative of confire
  3. third-person singular past historic of confire

Further reading


Latin

Verb

(deprecated template usage) cōnfit

  1. third-person singular present active indicative of cōnfīō

References

  • 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.