faction

See also: -faction and fraction

EnglishEdit

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faction

PronunciationEdit

IPA^(key): /ˈfæk.ʃən/, /ˈfæk.ʃn̩/
- Audio (Southern England) (file)
Rhymes: -ækʃən

Etymology 1Edit

Borrowed from Middle French faction, from Latin factiō (“a group of people acting together, a political faction”), noun of process from perfect passive participle factus, from faciō (“do, make”). Doublet of fashion.

NounEdit

faction (countable and uncountable, plural factions)

(countable) A group of people, especially within a political organization, which expresses a shared belief or opinion different from people who are not part of the group.
- 1748, David Hume, “Of Parties in General — How factions arise and contend.”, in Essays, Moral and Political:
  Real factions may be divided into those from interest, from principle, and from affection
(uncountable) Strife; discord.
- 1805, Johann Georg Cleminius, Englisches Lesebuch für Kaufleute, page 188:
  Publick [sic] affairs soon fell into the utmost confusion, and in this state of faction and perplexity, the island continued, until its re-capture by the French in 1779.
- 2001, Odd Magne Bakke, "Concord and Peace": A Rhetorical Analysis of the First Letter of Clement With an Emphasis on the Language of Unity and Sedition, publ. Mohr Siebeck, →ISBN, page 89:
  He asks the audience if they believe that they will be more loved by the gods if the city is in a state of faction than if they govern the city with good order and concord.

Derived termsEdit

Related termsEdit

Terms etymologically related to faction (etymology 1)

TranslationsEdit

group of people

Albanian: fraksion (sq) m
Arabic: فَرِيق‎ (ar) m (farīq), زَمْرَة‎ (ar) f (zamra), عُصْبَة‎ (ʕuṣba), فَصِيلَة‎ (ar) f (faṣīla), حَلْقَة‎ f (ḥalqa)
Armenian: խմբակցություն (hy) (xmbakcʿutʿyun)
Asturian: faición f
Azerbaijani: fraksiya
Belarusian: фра́кцыя f (frákcyja), клі́ка f (klíka), крыло́ n (kryló), групава́нне n (hrupavánnje)
Bulgarian: фра́кция (bg) f (frákcija), кли́ка (bg) f (klíka)
Catalan: facció (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 幫派／帮派 (zh) (bāngpài), 派別／派别 (zh) (pàibié), 派系 (zh) (pàixì), 派 (zh) (pài)
Czech: frakce (cs) f, křídlo (cs) n, klika (cs) f
Danish: fraktion c
Dutch: fractie (nl) f, factie (nl) f
Esperanto: fakcio
Estonian: fraktsioon
Finnish: siipi (fi), suuntaus (fi), faktio (fi), fraktio (fi)
French: faction (fr) f
Georgian: ფრაქცია (prakcia)
German: Fraktion (de) f, Flügel (de) m, Seite (de) f
Greek: φράξια (el) f (fráxia)
Ancient: αἵρεσις f (haíresis)
Hebrew: סִיעָה‎ (he) f (si'á)
Hungarian: klikk (hu), frakció (hu)
Indonesian: faksi (id)
Italian: fazione (it) f
Japanese: 派閥 (ja) (はばつ, habatsu)
Kazakh: фракция (fraksiä)
Korean: 파벌(派閥) (ko) (pabeol)
Kyrgyz: фракция (ky) (fraktsiya), группировка (ky) (gruppirovka)
Latin: pars (la)
Latvian: frakcija f
Lithuanian: frakcija f
Macedonian: фракција f (frakcija)
Maori: uepū
Norwegian:
Bokmål: fraksjon m

Nynorsk: fraksjon m
Polish: frakcja (pl) f, stronnictwo (pl) n
Portuguese: facção (pt) f (Brazil), fação (pt) (Portugal)
Romanian: facțiune (ro) f, fracțiune (ro) f
Russian: фра́кция (ru) f (frákcija), группиро́вка (ru) f (gruppiróvka), кли́ка (ru) f (klíka), крыло́ (ru) n (kryló)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: фра̀кција f

Roman: fràkcija (sh) f
Slovak: frakcia f, krídlo (sk) n, klika f
Slovene: frakcija f, skupina (sl) f
Spanish: facción (es) f
Swedish: fraktion (sv) c
Tajik: фраксия (fraksiya)
Turkish: fraksiyon (tr)
Ukrainian: фра́кція f (frákcija), клі́ка f (klíka), угрупо́вання n (uhrupóvannja), крило́ n (kryló)
Uzbek: fraksiya (uz)
Vietnamese: đảng phái (vi)

strife

Bulgarian: разногла́сие (bg) n (raznoglásie), раздо́р (bg) m (razdór)
Czech: rozkol m, rozpor (cs) m
German: Spaltung (de) f
Greek: διχόνοια (el) f (dichónoia), φαγωμάρα (el) f (fagomára)
Romanian: dezbinare (ro) f, rivalitate (ro) f, vrajbă (ro) f
Russian: раздо́ры (ru) m pl (razdóry), ра́спри (ru) f pl (ráspri), интри́ги (ru) f pl (intrígi), разногла́сие (ru) n (raznoglásije)
Scottish Gaelic: eadar-dhealachadh m
Turkish: nifak (tr)

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Telugu: ^{(please verify)} ముఠా (te) (muṭhā)

Etymology 2Edit

Blend of fact +‎ fiction.

NounEdit

faction (uncountable)

(literature, film) A form of literature, film etc., that treats real people or events as if they were fiction; a mix of fact and fiction.
- 1986 June 16, W. J. Weatherby, “Blind genius of faction”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:
  Blind genius of faction / Obituary of Jorge Luis Borges, Argentine writer [title]
- 2000, Sue Vice, Holocaust Fiction, Psychology Press, →ISBN, page 93:
  Contemporary reviewers offered different labels in attempts to describe the genre of Schindler's List. Lorna Sage, D.J. Enright and Robert Taubman called it a ‘documentary novel’; Paul Bailey and Gay Firth ‘faction’; […]
- 2007 November 12, Mark Lawson, “The king of faction”, in The Guardian‎^[2]:
  [Norman Mailer] was, though, absolutely the daddy of faction, his novels or journalism reporting every conflict from 1939 to Iraq and biographising Americans including John F Kennedy, Marilyn Monroe, Muhammad Ali and Neil Armstrong.
The facts found in fiction.