confit

Borrowed from French confit, p.p. of confire (“to preserve”), from Latin cōnficere (perfect passive participle cōnfectus).

confit (plural confits)

1. Any of various kinds of food that have been immersed in a substance for both flavor and preservation.

confit (third-person singular simple present confits, present participle confiting, simple past and past participle confited)

1. (transitive) To prepare (food) in this manner.
   • 2008 June 18, Melissa Clark, “A Garlic Festival Without a Single Clove”, in New York Times‎:

     I came up with a menu to showcase the alliums in several manifestations: raw, quickly sautéed and slowly confited.

From Old French [Term?], inherited from Latin cōnfectus, the past participle of conficiō (whence confire).

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̃.fi/

confit (feminine singular confite, masculine plural confits, feminine plural confites)

1. (food) preserved, pickled

• confiture
• déconfit
  • déconfiture

confit m (plural confits)

1. confit

confit

1. past participle of confire
2. third-person singular present indicative of confire
3. third-person singular past historic of confire

• “confit” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

cōnfīt

1. third-person singular present active indicative of cōnfiō

• confit in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• confit in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette