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
Origin of the Romanians speakers of Proto-Romanian and Proto-Albanian were frequent. For instance, the Latin word for dragon "(draco)" developed into Daco-Romanian "drac" and Albanian "dreq", both meaning devil; Daco-Romanian "bătrîn" and Albanian "vjetër" (both meaning old) descend from the Latin term for veteran "(veteranus)". Furthermore, Romanian "sat" ("village") was not directly inherited from Latin, but borrowed from Albanian "fshat" ("village"), the direct continuation of Latin "fossatum" ("military camp"). In addition to words of Latin or of possible substratum origin, loanwords make up more than 40% (according to certain estimations 60-80%) of the Romanian vocabulary. Schulte notes that even "relatively basic words denoting continually