confit

English

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

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.

Verb

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:

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

Related terms

• comfit
• confiture

Further reading

• confit on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̃.fi/

• Audio (France (Toulouse)):

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• Audio (Canada (Shawinigan)):

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• Audio (France (Agen)):

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• Audio (France (Vosges)):

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• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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Adjective

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

1. (food) preserved, pickled

Derived terms

• confiture
• déconfit
  • déconfiture

Noun

confit m (plural confits)

1. confit

Participle

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

1. past participle of confire

Verb

confit

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

Further reading

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

Latin

Etymology

From con- +‎ fīō.

Pronunciation

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

Verb

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.

Conjugation

   Conjugation of cōnfit (third conjugation, suppletive, third person-only, semi-deponent, no passive, no future active participle)

indicative		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	—		—		cōnfit		—		—		cōnfīunt
	imperfect	—		—		cōnfīēbat		—		—		cōnfīēbant
	future	—		—		cōnfīet		—		—		cōnfīent
	perfect	—		—		cōnfactus est		—		—		cōnfactī sunt
	pluperfect	—		—		cōnfactus erat		—		—		cōnfactī erant
	future perfect	—		—		cōnfactus erit		—		—		cōnfactī erint
subjunctive		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	—		—		cōnfīat		—		—		cōnfīant
	imperfect	—		—		cōnfieret		—		—		cōnfierent
	perfect	—		—		cōnfactus sit		—		—		cōnfactī sint
	pluperfect	—		—		cōnfactus esset		—		—		cōnfactī essent
imperative		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	future	—		—		cōnfītō		—		—		cōnfīuntō
non-finite forms		infinitive						participle
		active			passive			active			passive
present		cōnfierī			—			cōnfīēns			—
future		cōnfactum īrī			—			—			—
perfect		cōnfactum esse			—			cōnfactus			—
future perfect		cōnfactum fore			—			—			—
verbal nouns		gerund								supine
		genitive		dative		accusative		ablative		accusative		ablative
		cōnfīendī		cōnfīendō		cōnfīendum		cōnfīendō		cōnfactum		cōnfactū

References

• “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, pre-publication website, 2005-2016