confit

Unadapted borrowing from French confit, past participle of confire (“to preserve”), from Latin cōnficiō (perfect passive participle cōnfectus). Doublet of comfit, confect, confetto, and konfyt. Compare comfit.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɒnfiː/
• (US) IPA^(key): /kɑnˈfiː/

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confit (countable and uncountable, plural confits)

1. Any of various kinds of food that have been immersed in a substance for both flavor and preservation.
   • 2012, M.V. Kunda, Ed Im, Kunda Eats Best New Restaurants in America, 2012 edition, New York, N.Y.: Vayu Publishing, →ISBN, page 110:

     Korean classics such as pajeon, bibimbap and mandoo are re-imagined with ingredients like cauliflower ricotta, fennel kimchi, and king oyster mushroom confit.

confit (third-person singular simple present confits, present participle confiting, simple past and past participle confited)

1. (transitive) To prepare (food) in this manner.
   • 2008 June 18, Melissa Clark, “A Garlic Festival Without a Single Clove”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     I came up with a menu to showcase the alliums in several manifestations: raw, quickly sautéed and slowly confited.

• confit on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Inherited from Old French [Term?], inherited from Latin cōnfectus, the past participle of conficiō (whence confire).

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̃.fi/

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confit (feminine confite, masculine plural confits, feminine plural confites)

1. (food) preserved, pickled

• confiture
• déconfit
  • déconfiture

confit m (plural confits)

1. confit

confit (feminine confite, masculine plural confits, feminine plural confites)

1. past participle of confire

confit

1. inflection of confire:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. third-person singular past historic

• “confit”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

From con- +‎ fīō.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkõː.fɪt]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈkɔɱ.fit]

cōnfit (present infinitive cōnfierī, perfect active cōnfactus est); third conjugation, suppletive, third person-only, semi-deponent, no passive, no future active participle

1. to be done; to happen
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.115-116:

     […] Nunc quā ratiōne, quod īnstat, cōnfierī possit.

     […] Now what [we have] in mind, which is urgent, it may be possible for it to happen.

• “confit”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “cōn-fīō”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “confīo”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016