Confect comes from Latin confectus, past participle of conficere ('to put together, prepare, make'), from com- ('together') + facere ('to make, do'). The historical trail runs through conficere in Latin and facere in Latin. Morphologically, confect is transparent: it draws on Latin confectus, past participle of conficere ('to put together, prepare, make'), from com- ('together') + facere ('to make, do'). Used as a verb and noun, confect now means "put together or prepare, especially a sweet; a confection", so the present definition can be read against the older forms and meanings. The same lexical family is also visible in derived forms such as confection, confectioner, and confectionery and related forms such as confection, confetti, and comfit. The result is a borrowed or transmitted form whose modern spelling carries a compact record of its route into English.