confect

Meanings

Verb

• To make up, prepare, or compound; to produce by combining ingredients or materials; to concoct.
• To make into a confection; to prepare as a candy, sweetmeat, preserve, or the like.

Noun

• A rich, sweet, food item made of flavored sugar and often combined with fruit or nuts; a confection, comfit.

Origin

• Borrowed from Latin cōnfectus, past participle of cōnficere, from com- + facere. As a noun, comfit. See also confection.