faca

Galician

Etymology 1

Unknown. Probably not from Latin falx, from which originates fouce (“sickle”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfaka̝/

Noun

faca f (plural facas)

1. a large pocketknife
2. (regional) knife

Etymology 2

From Old French haque, from Middle English hack, from Hackney, a borough of London famous for its horses. Cognate with Spanish jaca.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfaka̝/

Noun

faca f (plural facas)

1. a mare
   • 1455, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros, Vigo: Galaxia, page 316:

     Iten, que furtara a faqa a Pero Gayo da sua casa, que está á par da vila de Ribadauia, da casa que está á par da ponte, et que lla furtara con a sella e con o freo et que fora despois por ela preso ena Cruña

     Item, that he stole the mare of Pedro Gaio, from his house that is near the town of Ribadavia, by the bridge; and that he stole her with saddle and bridle, and that later he was captured because of her in A Coruña

References

• “faca” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “faqa” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “faca” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “faca” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “faca” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Irish

Alternative forms

• facaidh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfˠakə/

Verb

faca

1. past indicative dependent analytic of feic

   Ceapaim go bhfaca sé an madra.

   I think that he saw the dog.

Usage notes

• Always occurs either lenited or eclipsed depending on the preverbal particle:

  Ní fhaca mé. ― I didn’t see.

  an áit a bhfaca mé an buachaill inti ― the place where I saw the boy

• Takes the forms of preverbal particles normally associated with the present tense, such as go, an, and nach, rather than gur, ar, and nár:

  An bhfaca tú? ― Did you see?

  Nach bhfaca tú? ― Didn’t you see?

Mutation

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “faca”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Entries containing “fhaca” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
• Entries containing “fhaca” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

Portuguese

Etymology

Unknown. Possibly from Latin falx (“sickle”).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -akɐ
• Hyphenation: fa‧ca

Noun

faca f (plural facas)

1. knife

   Synonym: (Porto, informal) naifa

Derived terms

References

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish ·accae.

Verb

faca

1. past dependent of faic

Mutation

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from Venetian fazza.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fât͡sa/
• Hyphenation: fa‧ca

Noun

fȁca f (Cyrillic spelling фа̏ца) (colloquial, slang)

1. face, expression

   Synonyms: líce, fizionòmija

2. person, guy

   Synonym: ȍsoba

Declension

References

• “faca” in Hrvatski jezični portal

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfaka/
• Rhymes: -aka
• Syllabification: fa‧ca

Noun

faca f (plural facas)

1. a curved knife

Derived terms

Further reading

• “faca”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014