Latin

Verb

cōnficiō ‎(present infinitive cōnficere, perfect active cōnfēcī, supine cōnfectum); third conjugation iō-variant

1. I prepare, accomplish, complete, execute; settle, close a bargain; traverse.
2. I produce, cause, bring about, effect, secure
3. I finish, end, spend, pass, complete.
4. I procure, bring together, collect, produce, prepare.
5. I perform, celebrate.
6. (philosophy) I show, deduce, demonstrate.
7. (figuratively) I diminish, lessen; destroy, kill, wear out, consume, exhaust, break up.

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• English: confect, confit
• French: confire

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
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “conficio”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (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 (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016