facticius

Latin

Alternative forms

• factītius (late)

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der.

Proto-Indo-European *dʰh₁k-yé-ti

Proto-Italic *θakjō

Proto-Italic *fakjō

Latin faciō

Proto-Indo-European *-tós

Proto-Italic *-tos

Latin -tus

Latin factus

Latin -īcius

Latin facticius

From factus +‎ -īcius.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [fakˈtiː.ki.ʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [fakˈtiː.t͡ʃi.us]

Adjective

factīcius (feminine factīcia, neuter factīcium); first/second-declension adjective

1. (Post-Augustan) made by art, artificial, factitious

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	factīcius	factīcia	factīcium		factīciī	factīciae	factīcia
genitive	factīciī	factīciae	factīciī		factīciōrum	factīciārum	factīciōrum
dative	factīciō	factīciae	factīciō		factīciīs
accusative	factīcium	factīciam	factīcium		factīciōs	factīciās	factīcia
ablative	factīciō	factīciā	factīciō		factīciīs
vocative	factīcie	factīcia	factīcium		factīciī	factīciae	factīcia

Descendants

• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: fatticcio
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Old French: faitis
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Asturian: fechizu
  • Galician: feitizo
  • Portuguese: feitiço
    • → Dutch: fetisj
    • → French: fétiche (see there for further descendants)
  • Spanish: hechizo
• Borrowings:
  • → Catalan: factici
  • → English: factitious
  • → French: factice
  • → Italian: fattizio
  • → Portuguese: factício
  • → Spanish: facticio

References

• “facticius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “facticius”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.