confeti
Galician
Etymology
From Italian confetti, plural of confetto (“confection”), reinterpreted as a singular (compare espagueti).
Noun
confeti m (plural confetis)
- confetti
- 2012 January 1, “Unha tonelada de confeti en Times Square”, in CRTVG:
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Spanish
Etymology
From French confetti, and this a pseudo-Italianism, from Italian confetti, plural of confetto (“confection”), reinterpreted as a singular (compare espagueti).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /konˈfeti/ [kõɱˈfe.t̪i]
- Rhymes: -eti
- Syllabification: con‧fe‧ti
Noun
confeti m (plural confetis)
- confetti
- 2015 July 27, Joan Faus, “México gana la Copa Oro superando con contundencia a Jamaica”, in El País:
- A los pocos segundos, al levantar Guardado el trofeo, se desató una lluvia de confeti amarillo y fuegos artificiales.
- A few seconds later, as Guardado lifted the trophy, a shower of yellow confetti and fireworks was let loose.
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Further reading
- “confeti”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014