конфуз

Several steps omitting from Latin cōnfūsus, from Latin cōnfundō (whence also English confound), from Latin con- + Latin fundō.

• IPA^(key): [kɐnˈfus]

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конфу́з • (konfúz) m inan (genitive конфу́за, nominative plural конфу́зы, genitive plural конфу́зов)

1. discomfiture; embarrassing situation

• Dal, Vladimir (1880–1882) “конфузить”, in Толковый Словарь живаго великорускаго языка [Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language] (in Russian), 2nd edition, Publication of the bookseller-typographer Wolf, M. O.