confectio
Latin
Alternative forms
- cōnfecciō (Medieval Latin)
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [kõːˈfɛk.ti.oː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [koɱˈfɛk.t̪͡s̪i.o]
Noun
cōnfectiō f (genitive cōnfectiōnis); third declension
- making, preparing, producing, arranging, composing, completing
- that which is made etc.; confection
Declension
Third-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | cōnfectiō | cōnfectiōnēs |
| genitive | cōnfectiōnis | cōnfectiōnum |
| dative | cōnfectiōnī | cōnfectiōnibus |
| accusative | cōnfectiōnem | cōnfectiōnēs |
| ablative | cōnfectiōne | cōnfectiōnibus |
| vocative | cōnfectiō | cōnfectiōnēs |
Descendants
- Inherited forms:
- Old Galician-Portuguese: confeyçon
- Galician: confeizón
- Portuguese: confeição
- Old Galician-Portuguese: confeyçon
- Ancient borrowings:
- Learned borrowings:
- → Catalan: confecció
- → English: confection
- → French: confection
- → Italian: confezione
- → Portuguese: confecção
- → Romanian: confecție
- → Spanish: confección
References
- “confectio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “confectio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- "confectio", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- confectio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.