Confetti Confetti Confetti are small pieces or streamers of paper, mylar, or metallic material which are usually thrown at celebrations, especially parades and weddings. The origins are from the Latin "confectum", with "confetti" the plural of Italian "confetto", small sweet. Modern paper confetti trace back to symbolic rituals of tossing grains and sweets during special occasions, traditional for numerous cultures throughout history as an ancient custom dating back to pagan times, but adapted from sweets and grains to paper through the centuries. Confetti are made in a variety of colors, and commercially available confetti come in many different shapes. A distinction
Origins of opera and religious forms from the Middle Ages, and at the time opera first appears the Italian intermedio had courtly equivalents in various countries. The Italian word "opera" means "work", both in the sense of the labor done and the result produced. The Italian word in turn derives from the Latin "opera". "Opera" is also the Latin plural of "opus", with the same root, but the word "opera" was a singular Latin noun in its own right, and according to Lewis and Short, in Latin "opus is used mostly of the mechanical activity of work, as that of animals, slaves, and