confeti
Catalan edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French confetti, a pseudo-Italianism from Italian confetti, plural of confetto (“confection”), reinterpreted as a singular (compare espagueti).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
confeti m (plural confetis)
Further reading edit
- “confeti”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “confeti” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
Galician edit
Etymology edit
From Italian confetti, plural of confetto (“confection”), reinterpreted as a singular (compare espagueti).
Noun edit
confeti m (plural confetis)
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French confetti, and this a pseudo-Italianism, from Italian confetti, plural of confetto (“confection”), reinterpreted as a singular (compare espagueti).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
confeti m (plural confetis)
- confetti
- 2015 July 27, Joan Faus, “México gana la Copa Oro superando con contundencia a Jamaica”, in El País[2]:
- A los pocos segundos, al levantar Guardado el trofeo, se desató una lluvia de confeti amarillo y fuegos artificiales.
- A few seconds later, as Guardado lifted the trophy, a shower of yellow confetti and fireworks was let loose.
Further reading edit
- “confeti”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014