Noun: confeti
Gender: m
Hyphenation: con‧fe‧ti
| Singular m | confeti |
| Plural m | confetis |
Sample Sentences
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A los pocos segundos, al levantar Guardado el trofeo, se desató una lluvia de confeti amarillo y fuegos artificiales. (A few seconds later, as Guardado lifted the trophy, a shower of yellow confetti and fireworks was let loose.) [2015 July 27, Joan Faus, “México gana la Copa Oro superando con contundencia a Jamaica”, in El País:]
Nouns inflected like confeti
whopper,
egocentrismo,
cervantismo,
nipofilo,
botellazo,
radionúclido,
palenque,
esferoide,
hierodiácono,
miligramo,
entrenamiento,
saxófono,
oligopéptido,
espongocele,
contratiempo,
entrechocamiento,
decímetro,
carrotanque,
mililitro,
mesangio, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from French confetti, and this a pseudo-Italianism, from Italian confetti, plural of confetto (“confection”), reinterpreted as a singular (compare espagueti). See: French Nouns '
confetti'.
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