factito Latin · revision 33065

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=la faciō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈfak.tɪ.toː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈfak.ti.to]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''factitō''' (present infinitive factitāre, perfect active factitāvī, supine factitātum); first conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|faciō|-itō|t1=to do, make]], a frequentative.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary) Lewis & Short take it from [[m|la|factō]].^(Lewis & Short 1879) De Vaan traces [[m|la|faciō]] to [[itc-pro|*fak-i-]] and to [[ine-pro|*dhh₁-k-|t=to make]], from the root [[m|ine-pro|*dheh₁-|t=to put]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The OLD's first citation is Plautus' ''Epidicus'', where a speaker says it would be folly to blame someone for what he himself used to do in youth.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means to do something often or habitually:^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Cicero writes of joining words in a way that not even the old Greeks practised, and of things often done among our ancestors.^(Lewis & Short 1879) It also means to practise as a profession: Cicero has Lycurgus making a profession of accusation at Athens, Quintilian medicine, Suetonius the collecting of money, Gellius the carrying of loads and Tacitus informing.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Of things it is to make habitually, as Pliny the Elder of garlands once made from melilot.^(OLD 2012) With a predicate it means to make someone something repeatedly: Cicero has a man whom another always openly named his heir.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of what one did in youth.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of practising accusation.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ * c. 35–95/96 AD – Quintilian of practising medicine.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ * c. 165 AD – Gellius of carrying loads.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To do often or habitually, be in the habit of doing.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To make a profession of, [[m|en|practise]] (a trade).^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To make habitually;^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) ''(with predicate)'' to make or declare repeatedly.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[factitatio]]

+ * [[factitator]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[faciō]]

+ * [[factō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}