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 than "-um") are rare enough that inferring rules is difficult. (One of the rare attested plurals, "pelage" as a plural of "pelagus", is borrowed from Greek, so does not give guidance for "virus".) Plural neuter nouns of other declensions always end in "-a" (in the nominative, accusative and vocative). In Neo-Latin, a plural form is necessary in order to express the modern concept of ‘viruses’, which lead to the following declension: If "vīrus" were a masculine second declension term like "alumnus", it would be correct to use "vīrī" as its plural. However, it is neuter. There does exist a Latin