confectus

Latin

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of cōnficiō (“prepare, bring about, finish, perform”).

Participle

cōnfectus (feminine cōnfecta, neuter cōnfectum); first/second-declension participle

1. prepared, accomplished, executed, having been accomplished
2. produced, caused, brought about, having been caused
3. finished, completed, having been finished
4. brought together, collected, having been collected
5. celebrated, having been celebrated
6. (philosophy) shown, demonstrated, having been shown
7. (figuratively) diminished, lessened; destroyed, killed; worn out, exhausted; having been killed

   Synonyms: fessus, frāctus, dēfessus, languidus

   Antonym: vīvus

   Aetate confectus ― Worn out by the year (an old man) (Caesar, de Bello Gallico, VII, 28)

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	cōnfectus	cōnfecta	cōnfectum		cōnfectī	cōnfectae	cōnfecta
Genitive	cōnfectī	cōnfectae	cōnfectī		cōnfectōrum	cōnfectārum	cōnfectōrum
Dative	cōnfectō		cōnfectō		cōnfectīs
Accusative	cōnfectum	cōnfectam	cōnfectum		cōnfectōs	cōnfectās	cōnfecta
Ablative	cōnfectō	cōnfectā	cōnfectō		cōnfectīs
Vocative	cōnfecte	cōnfecta	cōnfectum		cōnfectī	cōnfectae	cōnfecta

Derived terms

• cōnfectiō

Related terms

• cōnfactus

Descendants

• Catalan: confit
• Old French: confit
  • French: confit
  • → English: confit, comfit
• Friulian: confet
• Italian: confetto
  • → Portuguese: confete
  • → Russian: конфе́та (konféta) (see there for further descendants)
• Piedmontese: confet
• → Polish: konfekt
• Portuguese: confeito
  • Japanese: 金平糖(こんぺいとう) (konpeitō)
• Spanish: cohecho

References

• “confectus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “confectus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• confectus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to be worn out by old age: senectute, senio confectum esse
    
  • the question is settled, finished: res confecta est
    
  • weakened by wounds: vulneribus confectus