facture

See also: facturé

English

Etymology

From French facture (“a making, invoice”), from Latin factura (“a making”). Doublet of feature. See fact.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈfæk.tʃə/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈfæk.t͡ʃəɹ/

Noun

facture (plural factures)

1. (archaic) The act or manner of making or doing anything, especially of a literary, musical, or pictorial production.
   • 1605, Francis Bacon, “The Second Booke”, in The Twoo Bookes of Francis Bacon. Of the Proficience and Aduancement of Learning, Diuine and Humane, London: […] [Thomas Purfoot and Thomas Creede] for Henrie Tomes, […], →OCLC, folio 41, verso:

     [T]here is no doubt but the facture or framing of the inward parts, is as full of difference, as the outward, and in that, is the Cauſe Continent of many diſeaſes, which not be obſerued, they quarrell many times with the humors which are not in fault, the fault being in the very frame and Mechanicke of the parte, which cannot be remoued by medicine alteratiue, but muſt be accomodate and palliate by dyets and medicines familiar.

2. (dated, business) An invoice or bill of parcels.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “facture”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• furcate

French

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin factūra. Compare the inherited Old French faiture.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fak.tyʁ/

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

facture f (plural factures)

1. bill, invoice
2. craft, making, fabric
   • 1979, Georges Perec, Un cabinet d’amateur, Le Livre de Poche, page 108:

     Delacroix obtint 11 000 $ pour des Cavaliers arabes pleins de fougue mais d’une facture plutôt relâchée.

     Delacroix obtained 11,000$ for Arab Riders, full of enthusiasm but of somewhat diminished craftsmanship.

Verb

facture

1. inflection of facturer:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “facture”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• facteur

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /fakˈtuː.re/, [fäkˈt̪uːrɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /fakˈtu.re/, [fäkˈt̪uːre]

Participle

factūre

1. vocative masculine singular of factūrus

Portuguese

Verb

facture

1. inflection of facturar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Spanish

Verb

facture

1. inflection of facturar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative