# conficio
## Latin
### Etymology

From con- (“with, together”) +‎ faciō (“do, make”). Compare condō from the same root.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /konˈfi.ki.oː/, [kõːˈfɪkioː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /konˈfi.t͡ʃi.o/, [koɱˈfiːt͡ʃio]

### Verb

cōnficiō (present infinitive cōnficere, perfect active cōnfēcī, supine cōnfectum); third conjugation iō-variant
* to prepare, accomplish, complete, execute; settle, close a bargain; traverse
    Synonyms: perficiō, dēfungor, agō, expleō, patrō, cumulō, absolvō, efficiō, impleō, conclūdō, condō, exsequor, fungor, nāvō, perpetrō, trānsigō, prōflīgō, gerō, claudō, inclūdō, peragō, perferō, persolvō, exhauriō
* to produce, cause, bring about, effect, secure
* to finish, end, spend, pass, complete
* to procure, bring together, collect, produce, prepare
    Synonyms: confero, conveho, contraho
* to perform, celebrate
* (philosophy) to show, deduce, demonstrate
* (figuratively) to diminish, lessen, wear out, consume, exhaust
    Synonyms: abutor, perago, tero, effundo, accido, eneco
* to destroy, kill
    Synonyms: ēnecō, occīdō, interimō, caedō, obtruncō, necō, percutiō, interficiō, trucīdō, iugulō, sōpiō, perimō, peragō, dēiciō, tollō, absūmō, cōnsūmō

#### Conjugation

$^1$At least one use of the Old Latin "sigmatic future" and "sigmatic aorist" tenses is attested, which are used by Old Latin writers; most notably Plautus and Terence. The sigmatic future is generally ascribed a future or future perfect meaning, while the sigmatic aorist expresses a possible desire ("might want to").

#### Derived terms

* cōnfectiō
* cōnfector
* cōnfectūra
* cōnfectus
* cōnficiēns

#### Related terms

* afficiō
* cōnfectōrārius
* cōnfectrīx
* dēficiō
* efficiō
* faciō
* īnficiō
* interficiō
* officiō
* perficiō
* praeficiō
* prōficiō
* sufficiō

#### Descendants

* English: confect, confit
* French: confire
* ⇒ Italian: confarsi
* ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *excōnficiō
** Old Occitan: esconfire
*** →? Italian: sconfiggere

### References

* “conficio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “conficio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* conficio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co. to run its course in the sky: cursum conficere in caelo to freeze to death: frigore confici to accomplish a long journey: longam viam conficere to finish one's career: vitae cursum or curriculum conficere to die of starvation: fame confici, perire, interire to execute a commission: mandatum exsequi, persequi, conficere to arrange, settle a matter: negotium conficere, expedire, transigere to compose a speech: orationem conficere to compose, compile a book: librum conficere, componere (De Sen. 1. 2) to be wasted with grief; to die of grief: dolore confici, tabescere anxiety gnaws at the heart and incapacitates it: aegritudo exest animum planeque conficit (Tusc. 3. 13. 27) to be wasting away with grief: aegritudine, curis confici to be worn out, almost dead with anxiety: angoribus confici (Phil. 2. 15. 37) to digest food: cibum concoquere, conficere to settle, finish a transaction: negotium (rem) conficere, absolvere to keep the accounts (day-book) carefully: rationem diligenter conficere to raise an army: exercitum conficere (Imp. Pomp. 21. 61) to terminate a war (by force of arms and defeat of one's opponents): bellum conficere, perficere to traverse a route: iter conficere (B. C. 1. 70) to finish one's voyage: cursum conficere (Att. 5. 12. 1)
* conficio in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016