confecção
Portuguese
Alternative forms
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin cōnfectiōnem (“making, confection”). Compare the inherited doublet confeição.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /kõ.fe.kiˈsɐ̃w̃/ [kõ.fe.kiˈsɐ̃ʊ̯̃], /kõ.fekˈsɐ̃w̃/ [kõ.fekˈsɐ̃ʊ̯̃]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /kõ.fekˈsɐ̃w̃/ [kõ.fekˈsɐ̃ʊ̯̃], /kõ.fe.kiˈsɐ̃w̃/ [kõ.fe.kiˈsɐ̃ʊ̯̃]
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /kõ.fɛkˈsɐ̃w̃/
- Hyphenation: con‧fec‧ção
Noun
confecção f (plural confecções) (Brazilian Portuguese spelling, superseded in European Portuguese)
- confection (process)
- production
Derived terms
Further reading
- “confecção”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
- “confecção”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026