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
Plural form of words ending in -us lists "octopi", "octopuses" and "octopodes" (in that order); it labels "octopodes" "rare", and notes that "octopi" derives from the mistaken assumption that ' is a second declension Latin noun. (The long "ū" is not used in the 2nd declension.) Rather, it is (Latinized) Ancient Greek, from ' (, gender masculine), whose plural is ' (). If the word were native to Latin, it would be "octōpēs" ('eight-foot') and the plural "octōpedēs", analogous to "centipedes" and "mīllipedēs", as the plural form of "pēs" ('foot') is "pedēs". In modern Greek, it is called ' (, gender neuter), with plural form "" ().