confecção

Portuguese

Alternative forms

confeção (European)
confeição (chiefly archaic)

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin cōnfectiōnem (“making, confection”). Compare the inherited doublet confeição.

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /kõ.fe.kiˈsɐ̃w̃/ [kõ.fe.kiˈsɐ̃ʊ̯̃], /kõ.fekˈsɐ̃w̃/ [kõ.fekˈsɐ̃ʊ̯̃]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /kõ.fekˈsɐ̃w̃/ [kõ.fekˈsɐ̃ʊ̯̃], /kõ.fe.kiˈsɐ̃w̃/ [kõ.fe.kiˈsɐ̃ʊ̯̃]

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /kõ.fɨˈksɐ̃w̃/

Hyphenation: con‧fec‧ção

Noun

confecção f (plural confecções) (Brazilian spelling, superseded in European Portuguese)

confection (process)
production

Derived terms

confeccionar

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