"confection" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

IPA: /kənˈfɛkʃən/ Audio: en-us-confection.ogg [US] Forms: confections [plural]
Etymology: From Middle English confescioun, borrowed from Old French confeccion (French confection), borrowed from Latin cōnfectiōnem, from confectus, past participle of conficere (“prepare”), from com- (“with”) + facere (“to make, do”). Originally "the making by means of ingredients"; sense of "candy or light pastry" predominant since 1500s. Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*dʰeh₁-}}, {{inh|en|enm|confescioun}} Middle English confescioun, {{der|en|fro|confeccion}} Old French confeccion, {{m|fr|confection}} confection, {{der|en|la|confectio|cōnfectiōnem}} Latin cōnfectiōnem, {{m|la|conficere||prepare}} conficere (“prepare”), {{m|la|com-||with}} com- (“with”), {{m|la|facere||to make, do}} facere (“to make, do”) Head templates: {{en-noun}} confection (plural confections)
  1. A food item prepared very sweet, frequently decorated in fine detail, and often preserved with sugar, such as a candy, sweetmeat, fruit preserve, pastry, or cake. Categories (topical): Sweets Translations (food item): suikergoed (Afrikaans), ëmbëlsirë (Albanian), γλύκυσμα (glúkusma) [neuter] (Ancient Greek), حَلْوَى (ḥalwā) [feminine] (Arabic), сладкиш (sladkiš) (Bulgarian), бонбон (bonbon) (Bulgarian), 糖果 (tángguǒ) (Chinese Mandarin), 蜜餞 (Chinese Mandarin), 蜜饯 (mìjiàn) (Chinese Mandarin), 糖食 (tángshí) (Chinese Mandarin), godbid (Danish), suikergoed (Dutch), makeat herkut [plural] (Finnish), makeinen (english: candy) (Finnish), leivos (english: pastry) (Finnish), kakku (english: cake) (Finnish), sucrerie [feminine] (French), friandise [feminine] (French), pâtisserie [feminine] (French), bonbon [masculine] (French), doce [masculine] (Galician), ტკბილეულობა (ṭḳbileuloba) (Georgian), Konfekt [neuter] (German), Bonbon [masculine, neuter] (German), γλύκισμα (glýkisma) [neuter] (Greek), édesség (Hungarian), olahan gula (Indonesian), milseog [feminine] (Irish), sólas [masculine] (Irish), sócamas [masculine] (Irish), dolce [masculine] (Italian), pasticcino [masculine] (Italian), お菓子 (okashi) (alt: おかし) (Japanese), コンフェクション (konfekushon) (Japanese), 과자 (gwaja) (Korean), gula-gula (Malay), کونفيکسي (konfeksi) (Malay), konfekt [masculine] (Norwegian), حلوا (helva) (Ottoman Turkish), słodycze [plural] (Polish), confeito [masculine] (Portuguese), сла́дости (sládosti) [feminine, plural] (Russian), конфе́ты (konféty) [feminine, plural] (Russian), конди́терские изде́лия (kondíterskije izdélija) [neuter, plural] (Russian), сла́сти (slásti) [feminine, plural] (Russian), गौड (gauḍa) [neuter] (Sanskrit), golosina [feminine] (Spanish), dulce [masculine] (Spanish), confite [masculine] (Spanish), konfekt [common-gender] (Swedish), sötsak [common-gender] (Swedish), matamis (Tagalog), şekerleme (Turkish), konfeksiyon (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-confection-en-noun-Q6vQrV2F Disambiguation of Sweets: 23 5 5 5 5 23 23 10 Disambiguation of 'food item': 80 2 4 4 3 3 4
  2. The act or process of confecting; the process of making, compounding, or preparing something.
    Sense id: en-confection-en-noun-Q9JUo-RE
  3. The result of such a process; something made up or confected; a concoction.
    Sense id: en-confection-en-noun-Ps5ELFVl
  4. (dated) An artistic, musical, or literary work taken as frivolous, amusing, or contrived; a composition of a light nature. Tags: dated
    Sense id: en-confection-en-noun-C6Ut1gW1
  5. (dated) Something, such as a garment or a decoration, that is very elaborate, delicate, or luxurious, usually also impractical or non-utilitarian. Tags: dated
    Sense id: en-confection-en-noun-NvGXEIq8
  6. (pharmacology) A preparation of medicine sweetened with sugar, honey, syrup, or the like; an electuary.
    (obsolete, medicine) A medicinal preparation of any kind, a compound of drugs.
    Tags: obsolete Categories (topical): Medicine, Pharmacology, Sweets
    Sense id: en-confection-en-noun-LLmKyF5M Disambiguation of Sweets: 23 5 5 5 5 23 23 10 Topics: medicine, pharmacology, sciences
  7. (pharmacology) A preparation of medicine sweetened with sugar, honey, syrup, or the like; an electuary.
    (obsolete) A deadly poison.
    Tags: obsolete Categories (topical): Pharmacology, Sweets
    Sense id: en-confection-en-noun-4qoyuz5x Disambiguation of Sweets: 23 5 5 5 5 23 23 10 Topics: medicine, pharmacology, sciences
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: confect, confectionary, confectionery, confectioner, confectioners' sugar

Verb [English]

IPA: /kənˈfɛkʃən/ Audio: en-us-confection.ogg [US] Forms: confections [present, singular, third-person], confectioning [participle, present], confectioned [participle, past], confectioned [past]
Etymology: From Middle English confescioun, borrowed from Old French confeccion (French confection), borrowed from Latin cōnfectiōnem, from confectus, past participle of conficere (“prepare”), from com- (“with”) + facere (“to make, do”). Originally "the making by means of ingredients"; sense of "candy or light pastry" predominant since 1500s. Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*dʰeh₁-}}, {{inh|en|enm|confescioun}} Middle English confescioun, {{der|en|fro|confeccion}} Old French confeccion, {{m|fr|confection}} confection, {{der|en|la|confectio|cōnfectiōnem}} Latin cōnfectiōnem, {{m|la|conficere||prepare}} conficere (“prepare”), {{m|la|com-||with}} com- (“with”), {{m|la|facere||to make, do}} facere (“to make, do”) Head templates: {{en-verb}} confection (third-person singular simple present confections, present participle confectioning, simple past and past participle confectioned)
  1. To make into a confection, prepare as a confection. Categories (topical): Sweets
    Sense id: en-confection-en-verb-hSXBQuZ2 Disambiguation of Sweets: 23 5 5 5 5 23 23 10 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 9 13 14 6 7 10 10 31 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 17 10 11 13 7 9 9 23

Noun [French]

IPA: /kɔ̃.fɛk.sjɔ̃/ Audio: LL-Q150 (fra)-WikiLucas00-confection.wav Forms: confections [plural]
Rhymes: -ɔ̃ Etymology: Inherited from Old French confeccion, borrowed from Latin cōnfectiōnem. Etymology templates: {{glossary|Inherited}} Inherited, {{inh|fr|fro|confeccion|||g=|g2=|g3=|id=|lit=|nocat=|pos=|sc=|sort=|tr=|ts=}} Old French confeccion, {{inh+|fr|fro|confeccion}} Inherited from Old French confeccion, {{der|fr|la|cōnfectiō|cōnfectiōnem}} Latin cōnfectiōnem Head templates: {{fr-noun|f}} confection f (plural confections)
  1. making, creation, development, confection Tags: feminine
    Sense id: en-confection-fr-noun-AXahwH-E
  2. ready-to-wear clothing Tags: feminine
    Sense id: en-confection-fr-noun-1ouQasQS Categories (other): French entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of French entries with incorrect language header: 9 46 45
  3. the ready-to-wear clothing industry Tags: feminine
    Sense id: en-confection-fr-noun-0shnSGRQ Categories (other): French entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of French entries with incorrect language header: 9 46 45
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: confectionner

Inflected forms

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          "code": "ko",
          "lang": "Korean",
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          "word": "과자"
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          "roman": "sládosti",
          "sense": "food item",
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          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "konféty",
          "sense": "food item",
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          "word": "конфе́ты"
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          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "kondíterskije izdélija",
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          "word": "गौड"
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          "sense": "food item",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "golosina"
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          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "food item",
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          "word": "dulce"
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      "code": "af",
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      "lang": "Albanian",
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      "sense": "food item",
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      "english": "candy",
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      "code": "fi",
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          "ready-to-wear"
        ],
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          "clothing"
        ]
      ],
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      ]
    },
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      ],
      "links": [
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          "industry"
        ]
      ],
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        "feminine"
      ]
    }
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    },
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    },
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.