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
Plural form of words ending in -us word "virī", meaning "men" (the plural of "vir", a second declension masculine noun), but it has a short "i" in the first syllable. The form "vīriī" is impossible as a plural of ', since we only find the ending "-iī" in the plural form of masculine and feminine words ending in "-ius". For instance, "radius" is pluralized by removing "-us", to isolate the stem "radi-", and then adding the plural suffix "-ī". Thus the "-iī" ending of the resulting word ' is not a suffix: it is simply the consequence of adding the actual suffix "ī" to a stem that