parfait
See also: Parfait
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈpɑːfeɪ/, /pɑːˈfeɪ/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈpɑɹfeɪ/, /pɑɹˈfeɪ/
Noun
parfait (plural parfaits)
- A French parfait (parfait glacé), an iced dessert made with egg yolks, sugar, cream, and flavouring (usually fruit), sometimes with the addition of a liqueur.
- 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty, New York: Bloomsbury, OCLC 1036692193, page 379:
- Brad hesitated, peering at the grid of spun sugar that jutted from his loganberry parfait.
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- An American parfait, a layered dessert often consisting of fruit, ice cream, pastries, whipped topping, etc. and served in a glass, often a parfait glass.
- (UK) A smooth pâté, usually made from liver and flavoured with liqueurs.
Translations
an iced dessert
Finnish
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpɑrfeː/, [ˈpɑrfe̞ː]
- Rhymes: -ɑrfeː
- Syllabification(key): par‧fait
Declension
| Inflection of parfait (Kotus type 22/parfait, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | parfait | parfait’t | |
| genitive | parfait’n | parfait’iden parfait’itten | |
| partitive | parfait’ta | parfait’ita | |
| illative | parfait’hen | parfait’ihin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | parfait | parfait’t | |
| accusative | nom. | parfait | parfait’t |
| gen. | parfait’n | ||
| genitive | parfait’n | parfait’iden parfait’itten | |
| partitive | parfait’ta | parfait’ita | |
| inessive | parfait’ssa | parfait’issa | |
| elative | parfait’sta | parfait’ista | |
| illative | parfait’hen | parfait’ihin | |
| adessive | parfait’lla | parfait’illa | |
| ablative | parfait’lta | parfait’ilta | |
| allative | parfait’lle | parfait’ille | |
| essive | parfait’na | parfait’ina | |
| translative | parfait’ksi | parfait’iksi | |
| instructive | — | parfait’in | |
| abessive | parfait’tta | parfait’itta | |
| comitative | — | parfait’ineen | |
| Possessive forms of parfait (type parfait) | ||
|---|---|---|
| possessor | singular | plural |
| 1st person | parfait’ni | parfait’mme |
| 2nd person | parfait’si | parfait’nne |
| 3rd person | parfait’nsa | |
French
Etymology
Calque of Latin perfectus based on French par- + fait, inherited from Latin per- and factus respectively.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /paʁ.fɛ/
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Participle
parfait (feminine parfaite, masculine plural parfaits, feminine plural parfaites)
- past participle of parfaire
Derived terms
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Derived terms
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Further reading
- “parfait” in Émile Littré, Dictionnaire de la langue française, 1872–1877.
- “parfait”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Norman
Etymology
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Old French
Swedish
Declension
| Declension of parfait | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Plural | |||
| Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
| Nominative | parfait | parfaiten | parfaiter | parfaiterna |
| Genitive | parfaits | parfaitens | parfaiters | parfaiternas |
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