confeti

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from French confetti, a pseudo-Italianism from Italian confetti, plural of confetto (“confection”), reinterpreted as a singular (compare espagueti).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [kuɱˈfɛ.ti]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [koɱˈfɛ.ti]

Noun

confeti m (plural confetis)

1. confetti

   Synonym: paperets

Further reading

• “confeti”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “confeti” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.

Galician

Etymology

From Italian confetti, plural of confetto (“confection”), reinterpreted as a singular (compare espagueti).

Noun

confeti m (plural confetis)

1. confetti
   • 2012 January 1, “Unha tonelada de confeti en Times Square”, in CRTVG‎^[1]:

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from French confetti, and this a pseudo-Italianism, from Italian confetti, plural of confetto (“confection”), reinterpreted as a singular (compare espagueti).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /konˈfeti/ [kõɱˈfe.t̪i]
• Rhymes: -eti
• Syllabification: con‧fe‧ti

Noun

confeti m (plural confetis)

1. confetti
   • 2015 July 27, Joan Faus, “México gana la Copa Oro superando con contundencia a Jamaica”, in El País‎^[2]:

     A los pocos segundos, al levantar Guardado el trofeo, se desató una lluvia de confeti amarillo y fuegos artificiales.

     A few seconds later, as Guardado lifted the trophy, a shower of yellow confetti and fireworks was let loose.

Further reading

• “confeti”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10