confetti的词源

英文词源

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.

中文词源

confetti（婚礼上的彩色碎纸）：狂欢节游行时抛撒的糖果

在现代婚礼上，我们常常见到人们往新人身上抛撒彩色碎纸的场面。这种做法源自意大利。在中世纪的意大利，狂欢节时常常会举行盛大的游行。游行队伍和围观群众常常会相互抛撒小物品以表达欢乐之情。有钱的贵族往往会抛撒糖果，在意大利语中被称为confetti，是confetto（糖果）的复数形式。而没钱的穷人们为了嘲弄贵族则常常扔臭鸡蛋来代替糖果，结果双方经常在游行时发生争吵斗殴。意大利当局为了避免冲突，曾多次下令禁止在狂欢节游行时抛撒臭鸡蛋等物品，但穷人往往会用其他类似物品加以代替。这种情况直到1875年才终于有所改变。这一年，一位聪明的米兰商人在狂欢节之前向工厂采购了大量原本是无用副产品的彩色碎纸屑，并在狂欢节上向群众销售，用作游行时抛撒的物品。由于这种碎纸屑对人体无害，又充满喜庆，因此大受欢迎。从此以后，在狂欢节游行中抛撒彩色碎纸的做法就逐渐流传开来。抛撒彩色碎纸的做法在世界各地广为流传，还拓展至狂欢节之外的其他场合如婚礼。由于这种碎纸最初是用来代替糖果的，所以在意大利语中也被称为confetti。英语单词confetti便来源于此，同源的单词还有confection（糖果）。

confetti：[kən'fetɪ]n.（婚礼、狂欢节中抛撒的）五彩纸屑；（旧时狂欢节或庆祝场合抛撒的）糖果

confection：[kən'fekʃ(ə)n]n.糖果，蜜饯

该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版：confetti 词源，confetti 含义。

confetti：五彩纸屑

来自confection, 甜食。词义由甜食到五彩纸屑，以与甜食相配。字母c脱落，比较benefit, benefactor.