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Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *fakinos. Related to faciō.
Pronunciation
Noun
facinus n (genitive facinoris); third declension
- deed, action, doing
- Synonyms: factum, rēs, gestum, āctiō, āctus
- (by extension) adventure, venture, undertaking
- Synonyms: commissum, coeptum, inceptum
- (especially) crime, wickedness, evil deed
- Synonyms: dēlictum, peccātum, scelus, vitium, noxa, crīmen, culpa, iniūria, dēlinquentia, flāgitium, malum, commissum, maleficium
- Antonyms: bonum, rēctum, virtūs
Declension
Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “facinus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “facinus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- facinus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- monstrous: o facinus indignum! (Ter. Andr. 1. 1. 118)
- to do a criminal deed: facinus facere, committere
- to commit some blameworthy action: facinus, culpam in se admittere