confectioner

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a person or business that makes or sells sweets, chocolates, cakes, or other confections

   The confectioner filled the window with chocolates and sugared fruit.

Formed from confection + the agent suffix -er. Confection came through Old French from Latin conficere, 'to prepare or complete,' built from con-, 'together,' + facere, 'to make.' It narrowed in English toward prepared sweet foods.

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