confectus

Perfect passive participle of cōnficiō (“prepare, bring about, finish, perform”).

cōnfectus (feminine cōnfecta, neuter cōnfectum); first/second-declension participle

1. prepared, accomplished, executed, having been accomplished
2. produced, caused, brought about, having been caused
3. finished, completed, having been finished
4. brought together, collected, having been collected
5. celebrated, having been celebrated
6. (philosophy) shown, demonstrated, having been shown
7. (figuratively) diminished, lessened; destroyed, killed; worn out, exhausted; having been killed

   Synonyms: fessus, frāctus, dēfessus, languidus

   Antonym: vīvus

   Aetate confectus ― Worn out by the year (an old man) (Caesar, de Bello Gallico, VII, 28)

First/second-declension adjective.

• cōnfectiō

• cōnfactus

• Catalan: confit
• Old French: confit
  • French: confit
  • → English: confit, comfit
• Friulian: confet
• Italian: confetto
  • → Portuguese: confete
  • → Russian: конфе́та (konféta) (see there for further descendants)
• Piedmontese: confet
• → Polish: konfekt
• Portuguese: confeito
  • Japanese: 金平糖(こんぺいとう) (konpeitō)
• Spanish: cohecho

• “confectus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “confectus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• confectus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to be worn out by old age: senectute, senio confectum esse
    
  • the question is settled, finished: res confecta est
    
  • weakened by wounds: vulneribus confectus