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See also: Parfait
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From French parfait (“perfect”). Doublet of perfect.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈpɑːfeɪ/, /pɑːˈfeɪ/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈpɑɹfeɪ/, /pɑɹˈfeɪ/
Noun
[edit]parfait (plural parfaits)
- A French parfait (parfait glacé), an iced dessert made with egg yolks, sugar, cream, and flavouring (usually fruit), sometimes with the addition of a liqueur.
- 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty […], 1st US edition, New York, N.Y.: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 379:
- Brad hesitated, peering at the grid of spun sugar that jutted from his loganberry parfait.
- An American parfait, a layered dessert often consisting of fruit, ice cream, pastries, whipped topping, etc. and served in a glass, often a parfait glass.
- (UK) A smooth pâté, usually made from liver and flavoured with liqueurs.
Derived terms
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[edit]Translations
[edit]an iced dessert
Finnish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unadapted borrowing from French parfait (“perfect”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]parfait
Declension
[edit]Inflection of parfait (Kotus type 22/parfait, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | parfait | parfait’t | |
genitive | parfait’n | parfait’iden parfait’itten | |
partitive | parfait’ta | parfait’ita | |
illative | parfait’hen | parfait’ihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | parfait | parfait’t | |
accusative | nom. | parfait | parfait’t |
gen. | parfait’n | ||
genitive | parfait’n | parfait’iden parfait’itten | |
partitive | parfait’ta | parfait’ita | |
inessive | parfait’ssa | parfait’issa | |
elative | parfait’sta | parfait’ista | |
illative | parfait’hen | parfait’ihin | |
adessive | parfait’lla | parfait’illa | |
ablative | parfait’lta | parfait’ilta | |
allative | parfait’lle | parfait’ille | |
essive | parfait’na | parfait’ina | |
translative | parfait’ksi | parfait’iksi | |
abessive | parfait’tta | parfait’itta | |
instructive | — | parfait’in | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Further reading
[edit]- “parfait”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Calque of Latin perfectus based on French par- + fait, inherited from Latin per- and factus respectively.
Pronunciation
[edit]Participle
[edit]parfait (feminine parfaite, masculine plural parfaits, feminine plural parfaites)
Adjective
[edit]parfait (feminine parfaite, masculine plural parfaits, feminine plural parfaites)
Derived terms
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[edit]Noun
[edit]parfait m (plural parfaits)
Derived terms
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[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “parfait” in Émile Littré, Dictionnaire de la langue française, 1872–1877.
- “parfait”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Norman
[edit]Etymology
[edit](This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun
[edit]parfait m (plural parfaits)
Old French
[edit]Adjective
[edit]parfait m (oblique and nominative feminine singular parfaite)
- perfect (faultless; without imperfection)
Descendants
[edit]Swedish
[edit]Noun
[edit]parfait c
- parfait (dessert)
Declension
[edit]Declension of parfait | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | parfait | parfaiten | parfaiter | parfaiterna |
Genitive | parfaits | parfaitens | parfaiters | parfaiternas |
References
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- English terms borrowed from French
- English terms derived from French
- English doublets
- English 2-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- English terms with quotations
- British English
- en:Desserts
- Finnish terms borrowed from French
- Finnish unadapted borrowings from French
- Finnish terms derived from French
- Finnish 2-syllable words
- Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Finnish/ɑrfeː
- Rhymes:Finnish/ɑrfeː/2 syllables
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish nouns
- Finnish parfait-type nominals
- French terms calqued from Latin
- French terms derived from Latin
- French 2-syllable words
- French terms with IPA pronunciation
- French terms with audio links
- French non-lemma forms
- French past participles
- French lemmas
- French adjectives
- French terms with usage examples
- French nouns
- French countable nouns
- French masculine nouns
- fr:Grammar
- fr:Tenses
- Norman lemmas
- Norman nouns
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- Jersey Norman
- nrf:Grammar
- Old French lemmas
- Old French adjectives
- Swedish lemmas
- Swedish nouns
- Swedish common-gender nouns