confecção

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• confeção (Portugal)
• confeição (chiefly archaic)

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]

• (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confecção f (plural confecções) (Brazilian Portuguese spelling, superseded in European Portuguese)

1. confection (process)
2. production

Derived terms

• confeccionar