Picture a pair of hands building something up out of small parts: a layer of pastry, a spoon of cream, a line of honey, a few beads of sugar on top. Nothing here grew by itself. Every bit of it was chosen and put there. The thing that comes out is light, pretty and sweet, and it is meant to be enjoyed quickly rather than to last. Hold that picture and the whole word opens: the sweet you can eat, the dress that was built the same way out of lace and silk, the film that was assembled to be enjoyable and nothing more, and the story that somebody quietly put together out of pieces.
From Latin conficio, con- (together) plus facere (to make): to put together, to prepare from ingredients. The earliest English use was the making itself, and the candy-and-pastry sense only took the front seat from about the 1500s.
來自拉丁文 conficiō：con-（一起）加上 facere（做），字面是「把材料湊在一起做出來」。英文最早用的其實就是「做這件事」本身，甜點的意思大概到一五○○年代以後才變成主角。所以「被人做出來」才是這個字一路沒變的部分。
Wiktionary etymology supplied in this packet (source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:915621180); quoted line: Latin cōnficiō (prepare), con- + faciō; sense of candy or light pastry predominant since 1500s.
Three branches
做出來的甜食
這是畫面本身：手工做出來的甜點。其他用法都是把這個畫面借去用在別的東西上。
noun · C1
A sweet food that someone has made with care and skill, such as a candy, a pastry or a decorated cake. It is usually small, often pretty to look at, and usually sweetened with sugar or honey.
精緻甜點
甜點般好看卻沒份量的東西
把甜點的畫面整個搬去形容別的東西：一樣是細節堆出來的、一樣好看、一樣不耐放。差別只在被形容的是衣服、建築，還是一部電影。
noun · C1
Something made of many fine, delicate, decorative parts, especially a piece of clothing or a building, so that it looks light and pretty rather than plain or useful.
華麗精緻的東西
被拼湊出來的說法
這一支把「甜」丟掉，只留下「被做出來」。焦點從好不好吃，換成這東西到底是查出來的還是拼出來的。
noun · C2
Something that has been put together out of separate pieces, especially a story, a claim or an explanation that somebody made up instead of finding out.
拼湊出來的說法