faculte
See also: faculté
Middle English
Alternative forms
- facultee, facultei, faculti, facultie
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French faculte, from Latin facultās, a variant of facilitās.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /faˈkulteː/
Noun
faculte (plural facultes)
- Power, skill, capability, capacity; the amount which someone is capable of.
- A domain or area of learning or study; a science or art.
- Goods or effects; that which one owns or holds to be of value.
- (rare) A division or department of a tertiary institution or the people working within it.
- (rare) Softness or lack of firmness while touching.
Descendants
- English: faculty
- Scots: faculty
References
- “facultē, -tī (n.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-12-31.
Portuguese
Verb
faculte
- first-person singular present subjunctive of facultar
- third-person singular present subjunctive of facultar
- first-person singular imperative of facultar
- third-person singular imperative of facultar
Spanish
Verb
faculte
- First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of facultar.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of facultar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of facultar.