confit

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɒnfiː/

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confit (plural confits)

1. Any of various kinds of food that have been immersed in a substance for both flavor and preservation.

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.

• confiture

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.

cōnfit

1. third-person singular present active indicative of cōnfīō

• “confit”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• confit in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette