feitura

Forms

feitura f (plural feituras)^[1] Houaiss records the spellings feytura in the 14th century and fectura in the 15th.^[2]

Etymology

It is inherited from Latin factūra (“making, workmanship”), written Old Galician-Portuguese feitura in the oldest texts.^[2][1][3] The Latin word is formed from faciō (“to make, do”) with the suffix -ūra.^[4][1] fatura (“invoice”), recorded from 1764, is a learned doublet, which Houaiss traces to Latin through French facture.^[5][1]

The same Latin word is Galician feitura, Spanish hechura, Asturian fechura, Italian fattura, Old French faiture and Romanian făptură.^[6][7][1]

Earliest recorded meaning

The cantigas d'amor use fazer feitura em alguém for “to make someone (what he is)”, and a cantiga speaks of a woman's feituras, her figure or features: nas vossas feituras cuidou “(my heart) thought of your features”.^[8][9] Viterbo quotes a document of Guarda of 1298 that calls a man companhom, e feitura do Bispo, the bishop's protégé, someone promoted to an office by him.^[10]

Semantic evolution

From the start the word covered both the act of making and the thing made, and its sense “form, make” reflects the Latin word.^[2][4] Cardoso (1569) translates it opus, a work.^[11] The sense of a person made by a patron lasted: Bluteau (1712–1728) refers feitura de um príncipe to criatura, and Morais quotes a chronicle saying that a cardinal was the king's feitura.^[12][13] Medieval Latin factura had the same sense “creature”.^[14]

In Brazil feitura, short for feitura de santo, names the initiation of a devotee in candomblé and related religions.^[2][15][1]

Timeline

• 13th century – first records, in the cantigas.^[2][8]
• 1298 – a document of Guarda calls a man the bishop's feitura.^[10]
• 14th century – the spelling feytura.^[2]
• 15th century – the spelling fectura.^[2]
• 1513 – feitura in the Livro dos Mártires.^[16]
• 1569 – Cardoso translates feitura as opus.^[11]
• 1697 – Pereira gives Latin factura and effectio.^[17]
• 1712–1728 – Bluteau records feitura of a prince in the sense “protégé”.^[12]
• 1764 – the learned doublet fatura, spelt factura.^[5]

Meanings

Noun

1. The act or process of making something; elaboration, execution.^[2][18][1]
2. The thing made; a work, a product.^[2][19]
3. Shape, form, feitio.^[2][1]
4. A person trained or promoted by someone for his own service; a protégé, a creature.^[2][12]
5. (Brazil, religion) The initiation of a devotee in candomblé and related religions, in full feitura de santo.^[2][15][1]

Related words

• fatura
• feitio
• feito
• fazer
• Latin factura
• Galician feitura
• Spanish hechura

References

1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Houaiss, Antônio; Villar, Mauro de Salles (2001), Dicionário Houaiss da língua portuguesa, Rio de Janeiro: Objetiva, p. s.v. feitura
3. ^ Nascentes, Antenor (1966), Dicionário etimológico resumido, Rio de Janeiro: Instituto Nacional do Livro, p. s.v. feitura
4. ^ a b Glare, P. G. W., ed. (2012), Oxford Latin Dictionary, 2nd ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press, p. s.v. factūra
5. ^ a b Houaiss, Antônio; Villar, Mauro de Salles (2001), Dicionário Houaiss da língua portuguesa, Rio de Janeiro: Objetiva, p. s.v. fatura
6. ^ Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1935), Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch, 3rd ed., Heidelberg: Winter, p. 3136
7. ^ García de Diego, Vicente (1985), Diccionario etimológico español e hispánico, 2nd ed., Madrid: Espasa-Calpe (1st ed. 1954), p. s.v. factura
8. ^ a b Instituto da Lingua Galega, Dicionario de dicionarios do galego medieval (DDGM), ed. Ernesto González Seoane, Santiago de Compostela: Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, https://ilg.usc.gal/ddgm, p. s.v. feitura
9. ^ Universo Cantigas: Glosario da poesía medieval profana galego-portuguesa, A Coruña: Instituto da Lingua e Literatura (ILLA), Universidade da Coruña, https://www.universocantigas.gal, p. s.v. feitura
10. ^ a b Viterbo, Joaquim de Santa Rosa de (1798–1799), Elucidario das palavras, termos e frases que em Portugal antiguamente se usárão, 2 vols., Lisboa: Simão Thaddeo Ferreira, p. 1, 443
11. ^ a b Cardoso, Jerónimo (1569–1570), Dictionarium ex lusitanico in latinum sermonem, Lisboa: João Álvares (CLP transcription, Universidade de Aveiro), p. s.v. feitura
12. ^ a b c Bluteau, Raphael (1712–1728), Vocabulario portuguez e latino, 8 vols. + 2 supplement vols., Coimbra / Lisboa (CLP transcription, Universidade de Aveiro), p. s.v. feitura
13. ^ Silva, António de Morais (1813), Diccionario da lingua portugueza, 2nd ed., 2 vols., Lisboa: Typographia Lacerdina, p. 2, 10
14. ^ Niermeyer, J. F. (1976), Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden: Brill, p. s.v. factura
15. ^ a b Aulete, Francisco Júlio Caldas, Dicionário contemporâneo da língua portuguesa (1st ed. 1881), online as Aulete Digital, Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon, https://aulete.com.br, p. s.v. feitura
16. ^ Centro de Linguística da Universidade de Lisboa, CTA – Corpus de Textos Antigos, https://teitok.clul.ul.pt/cta, p. s.v. feitura
17. ^ Pereira, Bento (1697), Thesouro da lingoa portuguesa, in the 1697 edition of his Prosodia (1st ed. 1647; CLP transcription, Universidade de Aveiro), p. s.v. feitura
18. ^ Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, Dicionário da Língua Portuguesa, revised online edition (2023–) of the Dicionário da Língua Portuguesa Contemporânea (2001), https://dicionario.acad-ciencias.pt, p. s.v. feitura
19. ^ Ferreira, Aurélio Buarque de Holanda, Novo dicionário Aurélio da língua portuguesa, digital edition, p. s.v. feitura