factio

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Latin

Etymology

From faciō (I make, do) +‎ -tiō (action noun suffix), with a metaphorical primary meaning.

Pronunciation

Noun

factiō f (genitive factiōnis); third declension

  1. a political faction, a group of people acting together
    • 2003, Hannelore Zöllner, Eximia victoria Stoiberiana , Nuntii Latini Radio Bremen, Septembris 2003
      Christiana Unio Socialis tantam victoriam assecuta est, quantam in Germania nulla umquam factio ex electionibus liberis tulerat: abhinc Bavariam regere poterit duabus partibus [2/3] legatorum nisa.
      The Christian Social Union has achieved a victory that no other party in Germany has carried out: henceforth it will rule Bavaria holding two thirds of the legislature.
  2. a company of charioteers
  3. (rare) an act of making or doing; a preparation

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative factiō factiōnēs
Genitive factiōnis factiōnum
Dative factiōnī factiōnibus
Accusative factiōnem factiōnēs
Ablative factiōne factiōnibus
Vocative factiō factiōnēs

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Padanian:
    • Piedmontese: fasson
  • Northern Gallo-Romance:
    • Franco-Provençal: façon
    • Old French: façon (see there for further descendants)
  • Southern Gallo-Romance:
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: feiçon, faiçon
Borrowings

References

  • factio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • factio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • factio in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • factio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • a party; faction: factio (of aristocrats)