fac

See also: FAC, faç, and fáč

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fæk/
  • Rhymes: -æk

Etymology 1

Clipping of factotum.

Noun

fac (plural facs)

  1. (typography, rare) A factotum letter, or a similar kind of ornamentally bordered letter formerly used at the start of a chapter or section of a book.
    • 1771, Philip Luckombe, The History and Art of Printing, page 385:
      If a Fac or Flowered letter be deeper than the Composing-stick we measure the exact width of it by Quotations, or common Quadrats; which we put into our Stick, and the Fac into the Galley, and then compose, and empty each time so many lines as our measure in the Stick will allow, till we have composed so many as reach something beyond the Depth of the Fac, that by justifying it up to the lines, its touching the letters underneath may be prevented.
    • 1859, Robert Barclay, “A.D. 1790, July 26 -- No. 1766”, in Great Britain. Patent Office, editor, Patents for Invention, page 101:
      This combination of art and accident may be continued to any given length, as punches for letter-press may be formed of steel broken as above, by cutting, drilling, punching, bending (and all their varieties upon the same principle) parts of the letters and leaving the grain of the steel, &c. to form the lines or strokes, with all its accidental irregularities, and in this way title letters and two-line letters, facs, and complex founts of types, might be cast, every letter of which would vary in its lines from every other, and in larger letters a little art might be combin'd with accident so as to make the distinctions from all others obvious to a common observer.
    • 1907, De Vinne Press, Types of the De Vinne Press, page 45:
      The Fac Initial, a cheap substitute for the Pierced Initial, is made by combinations of small borders about an interior letter. As these borders are troublesome to construct and too often plainly show their joints, the Fac Initial is seldom made now.

Etymology 2

Clipping of faculty.

Noun

fac (plural facs)

  1. (colloquial) A faculty within a university.
    • 1973, Princeton Alumni Weekly, volume 74, page vii:
      Here's to Hibben. We call him Jack
      The whitest man in all the fac.
      Of Princeton spirit he does not lack
    • 2012, Jonathan Dennis, The good die and the bad live on, page 209:
      I had my essay on a memory stick so it just needed to be printed out in the Arts Fac; I'd intended to re-read it for sense but meeting Liv seemed more important.
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Aromanian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Latin faciō. Cognate with Romanian face.

Verb

fac (third-person singular fatsi or fatse, second-person plural fãtsets, imperfect fãtseam, participle faptã)

  1. to do, make

Derived terms

French

Etymology 1

    Clipping of faculté.

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /fak/
    • Audio (Paris):(file)
    • Audio (Switzerland (Valais)):(file)
    • Audio (France (Toulouse)):(file)
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    • Rhymes: -ak

    Noun

    fac f (plural facs)

    1. (informal, France) university
      Synonym: univ

    Etymology 2

    Pronunciation

    Conjunction

    fac

    1. (Quebec, informal) eye dialect spelling of fait que

    Ladin

    Noun

    fac

    1. plural of fat

    Latin

    Pronunciation

    Verb

    fac

    1. second-person singular present active imperative of faciō

    Megleno-Romanian

    Etymology

    From Latin faciō.[1]

    Verb

    fac (past participle fat)

    1. I do, make.

    References

    1. ^ https://www.dex.ro/face

    Romanian

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /ˈfak/
    • Rhymes: -ak

    Verb

    fac

    1. first-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of face
      Doresc să fac ceva.
      I want to do something.
    2. third-person plural present indicative of face
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