factio
Latin
Etymology
From faciō (“I make, do”) + -tiō (action noun suffix), with a metaphorical primary meaning.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈfak.ti.oː/, [ˈfäkt̪ioː]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈfak.t͡si.o/, [ˈfäkt̪͡s̪io]
Noun
factiō f (genitive factiōnis); third declension
- 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.
- 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.
- 2003, Hannelore Zöllner, Eximia victoria Stoiberiana , Nuntii Latini Radio Bremen, Septembris 2003
- a company of charioteers
- (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 |
Descendants
- Padanian:
- Piedmontese: fasson
- Northern Gallo-Romance:
- Franco-Provençal: façon
- Old French: façon (see there for further descendants)
- French: façon
- Southern Gallo-Romance:
- Catalan: faiçó, faisó
- Occitan: faiçon
- Old Portuguese: feiçon, faiçon
- Galician: feizón
- Portuguese: feição
- Borrowings
- → Catalan: facció
- → Czech: fakce
- → Danish: faktion
- → Irish: faicsean
- → Italian: fazione
- → Middle French: faction
- French: faction
- → Dutch: factie
- Afrikaans: faksie
- → Indonesian: faksi
- → English: faction
- → Romanian: facțiune
- → Portuguese: facção
- → Spanish: facción
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)
- a party; faction: factio (of aristocrats)