confetti

英 [k?n'fet?] 美[k?n'f?ti]

TEM8暢通詞匯

confetti：看飛天。看那彩色的紙屑飛滿天——五彩紙屑。

confetti 五彩紙屑

來自confection, 甜食。詞義由甜食到五彩紙屑，以與甜食相配。字母c脫落，比較benefit, benefactor.

confetti: confetti: [19] The Latin compound verb conficere meant ‘put together, make, prepare’ (it was formed from the prefix com- and facere ‘do, make’, source of English fact, factory, fashion, etc and related to English do). From its past participial stem was formed the noun confectiō, which passed into English, via Old French, as confection in the 14th century (by which time it already had its present-day association with sweets).

But the past participle confectum also produced Old French confit, whence English comfit [15], and Italian confetto, which was a small sweet traditionally thrown during carnivals. The British adapted the missiles to weddings (displacing the traditional rice) at the end of the 19th century, using symbolic shreds of coloured paper rather than real sweets.
=> comfit, confection, discomfit, do, fact, factory, fashion
confetti (n.): 1815, from Italian plural of confetto "sweetmeat," via Old French, from Latin confectum, confectus (see confection). A small candy traditionally thrown during carnivals in Italy, custom adopted in England for weddings and other occasions, with symbolic tossing of paper.

3. Crowds were just filling the skyscrapers and throwing out confetti.: 到處都是人山人海,人們揮灑著慶祝的糖果.

4. Do not throw confetti, and Cashew Nut Shell does not litter bags.: 不亂扔紙屑, 不亂丟果殼和包裝袋.

5. But the purple confetti fell again Thursday, this time with particular meaning.: 但是就在星期四,紫金王朝盛世再次降臨, 此次意義非同一般.