facto
English edit
Etymology edit
Latin , ablative of factum (“deed, fact”).
Adverb edit
facto (not comparable)
Related terms edit
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “facto”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Latin edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈfak.toː/, [ˈfäkt̪oː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈfak.to/, [ˈfäkt̪o]
Etymology 1 edit
Verb edit
factō (present infinitive factāre, perfect active factāvī, supine factātum); first conjugation
Conjugation edit
Derived terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Noun edit
factō n
Participle edit
factō
References edit
- “facto”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- facto in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Portuguese edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Learned borrowing from Latin factum. Doublet of feito.
Pronunciation edit
- Rhymes: -aktu
- Hyphenation: fac‧to
Noun edit
facto m (plural factos) (European Portuguese)
- fact (something which is real)
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin factum. Compare the inherited doublet hecho.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
facto m (plural factos)
Further reading edit
- “facto”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014