confectus
Latin
Etymology
Perfect passive participle of cōnficiō (“prepare, bring about, finish, perform”).
Participle
cōnfectus (feminine cōnfecta, neuter cōnfectum); first/second-declension participle
- prepared, accomplished, executed, having been accomplished
- produced, caused, brought about, having been caused
- finished, completed, having been finished
- brought together, collected, having been collected
- celebrated, having been celebrated
- (philosophy) shown, demonstrated, having been shown
- (figuratively) diminished, lessened; destroyed, killed; worn out, exhausted; having been killed
- Synonyms: fessus, frāctus, dēfessus, languidus
- Antonym: vīvus
- Aetate confectus ― Worn out by the year (an old man) (Caesar, de Bello Gallico, VII, 28)
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
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Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
Nominative | cōnfectus | cōnfecta | cōnfectum | cōnfectī | cōnfectae | cōnfecta | |
Genitive | cōnfectī | cōnfectae | cōnfectī | cōnfectōrum | cōnfectārum | cōnfectōrum | |
Dative | cōnfectō | cōnfectō | cōnfectīs | ||||
Accusative | cōnfectum | cōnfectam | cōnfectum | cōnfectōs | cōnfectās | cōnfecta | |
Ablative | cōnfectō | cōnfectā | cōnfectō | cōnfectīs | |||
Vocative | cōnfecte | cōnfecta | cōnfectum | cōnfectī | cōnfectae | cōnfecta |
Derived terms
- cōnfectiō
Related terms
- cōnfactus
Descendants
- Catalan: confit
- Old French: confit
- French: confit
- → English: confit, comfit
- Friulian: confet
- Italian: confetto
- → Russian: конфе́та (konféta)
- → Armenian: կոնֆետ (konfet)
- → Azerbaijani: konfet
- → Bashkir: кәнфит (känfit)
- → Chechen: кемпет (kempet)
- → Crimean Tatar: qanfet
- → Georgian: კანფეტი (ḳanpeṭi)
- → Ingush: конфет (konfet)
- → Kazakh: кәмпит (kämpit)
- → Kyrgyz: конфета (konfeta)
- → Ossetian: къафетт (k’afett)
- → Persian: کانفت (kânfet)
- → Tajik: конфет (konfet)
- → Tatar: кәнфит (känfit), конфет (qonfet)
- → Ukrainian: конфе́та (konféta)
- → Uzbek: konfet
- → Uyghur: كەمپۈت (kempüt)
- → Western Mari: кампеткӓ (kampetkä)
- → Yakut: кэмпиэт (kempiet)
- → Russian: конфе́та (konféta)
- Piedmontese: confet
- → Polish: konfekt
- Portuguese: confeito
- Japanese: 金平糖 (konpeitō)
- Spanish: cohecho
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, 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
- to be worn out by old age: senectute, senio confectum esse