factio
Appearance
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From faciō (“I make, do”) + -tiō (action noun suffix), with a metaphorical primary meaning.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈfak.ti.oː/, [ˈfäkt̪ioː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈfak.t͡si.o/, [ˈfäkt̪͡s̪io]
Noun
[edit]factiō f (genitive factiōnis); third declension
- a political faction, a group of people acting together
- 2003, Hannelore Zöllner, Eximia victoria Stoiberiana [1], 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.
- 2003, Hannelore Zöllner, Eximia victoria Stoiberiana [1], Nuntii Latini Radio Bremen, Septembris 2003
- a company of charioteers
- (rare) an act of making or doing; a preparation
Declension
[edit]Third-declension noun.
singular | plural | |
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nominative | factiō | factiōnēs |
genitive | factiōnis | factiōnum |
dative | factiōnī | factiōnibus |
accusative | factiōnem | factiōnēs |
ablative | factiōne | factiōnibus |
vocative | factiō | factiōnēs |
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Borrowings
References
[edit]- “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[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
- a party; faction: factio (of aristocrats)
- a party; faction: factio (of aristocrats)
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