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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=81–43 BC, Cicero|origins=la faciō}}
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+ ==Pronunciation==
+ * Classical: [kõːˈfɛk.ti.oː]^(Wiktionary)
+ * Ecclesiastical: [koɱˈfɛk.t͡si.o]^(Wiktionary)
+ 
+ ==Forms==
+ '''cōnfectiō''' ''f'' (genitive cōnfectiōnis); third declension^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Etymology==
+ It is [[af|la|cōnficiō|-tiō|t1=to make, complete]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(TLL)
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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==
+ Köbler finds it first in Cicero,^(Köbler 2010) who, Lewis and Short note, uses it several times while other authors rarely do.^(Lewis & Short 1879) He writes that history was once nothing but the compiling of annals (''annālium cōnfectiō'').^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Conte 2010)
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+ ==Semantic evolution==
+ Its senses follow those of the verb.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) It meant making or preparing (of a book, of accounts, of the memory, of olive oil in Palladius), the completion or end of a war, and the exaction of a tribute.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Conte 2010) It could also mean wearing down: a weakening of health in Cicero's ''Hortensius'', and the breaking down of food by the teeth and by digestion in Cicero and Gellius.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Conte 2010) In Justinian's Code it is the drawing up of a will, and Palladius uses it for a thing prepared.^(Lewis & Short 1879)
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+ In the Church it meant making or producing.^(Stelten 1995) Medieval Latin used it for a medical mixture or drug and for a sweetmeat.^(Niermeyer 1976) English [[m|en|confection]] was borrowed in the mid-14th century, through Old French, for anything prepared by mixing, from this medieval sense of a preparation or medicament.^(Etymonline) It survives in [[it|confezione]].^(Conte 2010)
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+ ==Timeline==
+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of compiling annals, of ending a war and of chewing food.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * c. 165 AD – Gellius uses it of digestion.^(Conte 2010)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * end of 4th/beginning of 5th century AD – Palladius uses it of making oil.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * mid-14th century – English borrows it as [[m|en|confection]].^(Etymonline)
+ 
+ ==Meanings==
+ ===Noun===
+ # A making, [[m|en|preparation]]; the compiling (of a book, accounts); composition.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Conte 2010)
+ # The [[m|en|conclusion]], completion (of a war).^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)
+ # An impairing, weakening (of health); the breaking down of food by chewing or digestion.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Conte 2010)
+ # Something prepared.^(Lewis & Short 1879)
+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' A medical mixture, drug; a sweetmeat, [[m|en|comfit]].^(Niermeyer 1976)^(Etymonline)
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+ ==References==
+ {{reflist}}