English → Latin
“confection” in Latin
dulcissweet; sweet-smelling, sweet-scented, fragrant; sweet-sounding, melodic, melodious, tunefuldulcĭŏlalittle sugar-cakesbellāriaviands of the dessert, sweetmeats, confectionerycuppēdiaa taste for delicacies; delicacies
The English word confection itself goes back to Latin cōnficiō, through confectio.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
confection
dulcia, ium, or dulciola, plur., (Apul., Met., 4, p 115, 12): bellaria (sweetmeats); also mensa secunda (dessert): cuppedia (general term for any dainty morsel: comic poets and late).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for confection?
- The usual Latin words for “confection” are dulcis, dulcĭŏla, bellāria; also cuppēdia. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.