factorium

Latin

Etymology

From faciō (“to do, make”) +‎ -tōrium, or equivalently factor (“doer, maker”) +‎ -ium; the person who pressed olives in an oil-press was called a factor, and the oil produced was called factum. Compare calcātōrium (“winepress”).

Noun

factōrium n (genitive factōriī or factōrī); second declension

1. An oil-press
   • c. 500 CE, Palladius, Opus agriculturae 11.10.1:

     Nunc oleum viride faciemus hoc genere. Olivam quam recentissimam, cum varia est, colligis et, si diebus aliquot collegeris, expandis, ne calefiat. Si qua ibi putris aut sicca est, removes. Ubi vero conpleveris modum factorii, sales tritos vel non tritos, quod est melius, in olivam eandem mittes per decem modios tres salis et moles primo et sic salitam in novis canistris esse patieris, ut pernoctet cum salibus et ducat in se eosdem sapores: ac mane premi incipiat olei meliorem fluxum redditura salis sapore concerto.

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Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	factorium	factoria
genitive	factoriī factorī1	factoriōrum
dative	factoriō	factoriīs
accusative	factorium	factoria
ablative	factoriō	factoriīs
vocative	factorium	factoria

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Descendants

• Italian: fattoio

References

• “factorium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “factorium”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “factorium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “factorium”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin