Confetti the end of the 19th century, using symbolic shreds of coloured paper rather than real sweets. 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
Classification of Romance languages "the sky"), and several more. This phenomenon, called the Balkan language area, may be due to contacts between those languages in post-Roman times. Some Romance languages form plurals by adding (derived from the plural of the Latin accusative case), while others form the plural by changing the final vowel (by influence of Latin nominative plural endings, such as ) from some masculine nouns. Some Romance languages use a version of Latin "plus", others a version of "magis". Although the Classical Latin word for "nothing" is ', the common word for "nothing" became ' in Italian (from neuter plural "nulla", "no