facultas

See also: facultás

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *fakelitāts, related to facilis. Doublet of facilitās.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /faˈkul.taːs/, [fäˈkʊɫ̪t̪äːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /faˈkul.tas/, [fäˈkul̪t̪äs]

Noun

facultās f (genitive facultātis); third declension

1. ability, skill
2. (in the plural) means, resources
3. opportunity, chance

   Synonyms: opportūnitās, occāsiō

4. faculty (group of teachers)

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	facultās	facultātēs
Genitive	facultātis	facultātum
Dative	facultātī	facultātibus
Accusative	facultātem	facultātēs
Ablative	facultāte	facultātibus
Vocative	facultās	facultātēs

Descendants

• English: faculty
• French: faculté
• Galician: facultade
• Indonesian: fakultas
• Italian: facoltà
• Piedmontese: facoltà
• Portuguese: faculdade
• Romanian: facultate
• Sicilian: facurtati, facurtà
• Spanish: facultad
• Albanian: fakulltet

References

• “facultas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “facultas”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• facultas in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• facultas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to give a man the opportunity of doing a thing: facultatem alicui dare alicuius rei or ut possit...
    
  • to deprive a man of the chance of doing a thing: facultatem, potestatem alicui eripere, adimere
    
  • no opportunity of carrying out an object presents itself: nulla est facultas alicuius rei
    
  • oratorical talent: facultas dicendi
    
  • to be very rich: opibus, divitiis, bonis, facultatibus abundare
    
• facultas in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016

Portuguese

Verb

facultas

1. second-person singular present indicative of facultar

Spanish

Verb

facultas

1. second-person singular present indicative of facultar