confettare

Meaning

1. (transitive) to sugarcoat, to coat with sugar
2. (archaic, transitive) to prepare (food and drink)
3. (figuratively, transitive) to embellish (a poem, etc.) with sugary words
4. (figuratively, rare, transitive) to trick (someone) with flattery
5. (archaic, intransitive) to eat candy (especially sugared almonds)

Concepts

candy

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glaze

sugarcoat

Synonyms

smaltare

Translations

confitar

🍬

bonbon

sucrerie

Hyphenated as

con‧fet‧tà‧re

Pronounced as (IPA)

/kon.fetˈta.re/

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *cōnfectāre, frequentative of Latin cōnficiō, through its past participle cōnfectus. Compare Spanish cohechar, Portuguese confeitar.