confetto
See also: confettò
English
Etymology
Italian confetto. Doublet of comfit.
Noun
confetto (plural confetti)
- (rare) A single piece of confetti; singular of confetti.
- 1931, Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Punch, volume 181, page 260:
- I cast a confetto or two at the happy pair.
- 1993, Outerbridge, page 49:
- She fluttered her hand at a confetto of cigarette ash, knocking it from her black soft sweater to the thigh of her black jeans where it lay unmolested.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:confetto.
- 1931, Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Punch, volume 181, page 260:
Italian
Etymology 1
From Latin cōnfectus.
Noun
confetto m (plural confetti)
- sugar-coated almond
- sugar-coated pill
Related terms
- confettini
Descendants
- → 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)
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
confetto
- first-person singular present indicative of confettare