confetto

From Italian confetto. Doublet of comfit, confect, confit, and konfyt.

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confetto (plural confetti)

1. (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.

From Latin cōnfectum, cōnfectus.

confetto m (plural confetti)

1. sugar-coated almond
2. sugar-coated pill

• confettini

• → English: confetto, confetti
• → Portuguese: confete
• → Russian: конфе́та (konféta) (see there for further descendants)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

confetto

1. first-person singular present indicative of confettare