facticius Latin · revision 7292

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [fakˈtiː.ki.ʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [fakˈtiː.t͡ʃi.us]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''factīcius''' (feminine factīcia, neuter factīcium); first/second-declension adjective^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is from [[factus]] “made”, the participle of [[faciō]], with the suffix [[-īcius]], and is also spelled ⟨factītius⟩.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler's first source is Plautus, whom he dates c. 250–184 BC.^(Köbler 2010) Lewis and Short call it post-Augustan and cite Pliny.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It meant made by art, manufactured, artificial, as Pliny's ''sāl factīcius'' and artificial colours, as opposed to what arises naturally.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016) The glosses explain it as what is made, not what grows of itself.^(TLL) Priscian uses it of words formed by imitation of sounds, onomatopoeic.^(Gaffiot 2016)^(DMLBS)

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+ In Medieval Latin a ''factīcius'' was one who had voluntarily put himself under a lord's power.^(Niermeyer 1976) It survives in Italian ''fatticcio'', Spanish ''hechizo'' and Portuguese ''feitiço'' “charm, sorcery”, the source of [[en|fetish]] in the 1610s.^(Wiktionary)^(Etymonline) [[en|factitious]] is a learned borrowing of the 1640s.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus has the word.^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 23/24–79 AD – Pliny uses it of artificial salt.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1610s – English ''fetish'' is recorded, from Portuguese ''feitiço''.^(Etymonline)

+ * 1640s – English ''factitious'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Made by art, artificial, [[m|en|factitious]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # ''(grammar)'' Onomatopoeic.^(Gaffiot 2016)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' As a noun, a voluntary dependant of a lord.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[faciō]]

+ * [[factus]]

+ * [[en|factitious]]

+ * [[en|fetish]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}