confete
Portuguese
Alternative forms
- confetti, conféti
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian confetti, plural of confetto (“confection”). Doublet of confeito.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /kõˈfɛ.t͡ʃi/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /kõˈfɛ.te/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /kõˈfɛ.tɨ/
- Rhymes: (Brazil) -ɛt͡ʃi, (Portugal) -ɛtɨ
- Hyphenation: con‧fe‧te
Noun
confete m (plural confetes)
- confetti (small pieces of colored paper generally thrown about at festive occasions)
Further reading
- “confete”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
- “confete”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026
Romanian
Noun
confete f (plural confete)
- alternative form of confetti
Declension
| singular | plural | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | ||
| nominative-accusative | confete | confetea | confete | confetele | |
| genitive-dative | confete | confetei | confete | confetelor | |
| vocative | confete, confeteo | confetelor | |||