parfait

See also: Parfait

Contents

EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowing from French parfait (“perfect”).

NounEdit

parfait (plural parfaits)

1. A French parfait (parfait glacé), an iced dessert made with egg yolks, sugar, cream, and flavouring (usually fruit), sometimes with the addition of a liqueur.
2. An American parfait, a layered dessert often consisting of fruit, ice cream, pastries, whipped topping, etc. and served in a glass, often a parfait glass.
3. (Britain) A smooth pâté, usually made from liver and flavoured with liqueurs.

QuotationsEdit

• 2005, Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty, Bloomsbury Publishing, paperback edition, page 379

  Brad hesitated, peering at the grid of spun sugar that jutted from his loganberry parfait.

TranslationsEdit

an iced dessert

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 芭菲 (baa¹ fei¹)

  Mandarin: 芭菲 (zh) (bāfēi)

• Danish: parfait c
• Finnish: parfait (fi), parfee

• Hungarian: parfé (hu)
• Japanese: パフェ (pafe)
• Korean: 파르페 (paleupe)
• Marathi: पार्फे m (pārfe)
• Swedish: parfait (sv)

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FinnishEdit

Alternative formsEdit

• parfee

EtymologyEdit

Borrowing from French parfait (“perfect”).

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɑrfeː/
• Hyphenation: par‧fait

NounEdit

parfait

1. parfait

DeclensionEdit

Inflection of parfait (Kotus type 22/parfait, no gradation)
nominative		parfait	parfait't
genitive		parfait'n	parfait'iden parfait'itten
partitive		parfait'ta	parfait'ita
illative		parfait'hen	parfait'ihin
		singular	plural
nominative		parfait	parfait't
accusative	nom.	parfait	parfait't
	gen.	parfait'n
genitive		parfait'n	parfait'iden parfait'itten
partitive		parfait'ta	parfait'ita
inessive		parfait'ssa	parfait'issa
elative		parfait'sta	parfait'ista
illative		parfait'hen	parfait'ihin
adessive		parfait'lla	parfait'illa
ablative		parfait'lta	parfait'ilta
allative		parfait'lle	parfait'ille
essive		parfait'na	parfait'ina
translative		parfait'ksi	parfait'iksi
instructive		—	parfait'in
abessive		parfait'tta	parfait'itta
comitative		—	parfait'ineen

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FrenchEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin perfectus.

PronunciationEdit

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• IPA^(key): /paʁ.fɛ/

AdjectiveEdit

parfait (feminine singular parfaite, masculine plural parfaits, feminine plural parfaites)

1. perfect (exactly right)

   Le déjeuner était parfait.

   The lunch was perfect.

NounEdit

parfait m (plural parfaits)

1. (grammar) perfect tense

See alsoEdit

• parfaitement
• perfection
• plus-que-parfait

Further readingEdit

• “parfait” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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NormanEdit

EtymologyEdit

NounEdit

parfait m (plural parfaits)

1. (Jersey, grammar) perfect tense

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Old FrenchEdit

AdjectiveEdit

parfait m (oblique and nominative feminine singular parfaite)

1. perfect (faultless; without imperfection)

DescendantsEdit

• English: parfit
• French: parfait
• Norman: parfait