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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Plautus|origins=la faber}}
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+ ==Pronunciation==
+ * IPA (Classical): [ˈfa.brɪ.ka]^(Wiktionary)
+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ˈfaː.bri.ka]^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Forms==
+ '''fabrica''' ''f'' (genitive fabricae); first declension^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Etymology==
+ It is from [[faber]] “craftsman, smith” with the suffix ⟨-ca⟩, ⟨-cus⟩, and Wiktionary takes it from an adjective ⟨*fabricus⟩ used with [[officīna]] “workshop” and [[ars]] “art”.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan traces ⟨faber⟩ to [[itc-pro|*fafro-]], perhaps [[ine-pro|*dʰHbʰ-ro-|t=craftsman]].^(de Vaan 2008)
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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==
+ The OLD's earliest citation is from Plautus, of a trick.^(OLD 2012) Köbler dates Plautus c. 250–184 BC.^(Köbler 2010)
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+ ==Semantic evolution==
+ It was a craft or art, as in Cicero and Pliny's ''fabrica aerāria'' “bronze-working”; the process of making or building, construction, as in Cicero; and the workshop of a craftsman in hard materials, as in Terence.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Lewis & Short 1879) In Plautus it was a plan, a device, a trick.^(OLD 2012)
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+ In Medieval Latin it was building work, and especially the fabric of a church, the building and upkeep of its fabric and the funds for it.^(Niermeyer 1976)^(Stelten 1995) British Medieval Latin used it for a workshop, especially a forge or bloomery.^(DMLBS) It survives in Italian ''fabbrica'' and, through Old French ''faverge'', in French ''forge''.^(Wiktionary) [[en|fabric]] came through French ''fabrique'' in the late 15th century, first “a building”.^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Timeline==
+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it of a trick.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 190–159 BC – Terence uses it of a workshop.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of a craft and of building.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * late 15th century – English ''fabric'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Meanings==
+ ===Noun===
+ # A craft, art.^(OLD 2012)
+ # Making, building, construction.^(OLD 2012)
+ # A [[m|en|workshop]], ''(Medieval Latin)'' a [[m|en|forge]].^(OLD 2012)^(DMLBS)
+ # A plan, device, [[m|en|trick]].^(OLD 2012)
+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' The building and upkeep of a church; its [[m|en|fabric]] fund.^(Niermeyer 1976)^(Stelten 1995)
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+ ==Word family==
+ * [[fabricula]]
+ * [[fabricēnsis]]
+ * [[fabricor]]
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+ ==Related words==
+ * [[faber]]
+ * [[fabrē]]
+ * [[fabrēfaciō]]
+ * [[fabrēfactus]]
+ * [[fabricābilis]]
+ * [[fabricātiō]]
+ * [[fabricātor]]
+ * [[fabricātōrius]]
+ * [[fabricātrīx]]
+ * [[fabricātus]]
+ * [[en|fabric]]
+ * [[en|forge]]
+ 
+ ==References==
+ {{reflist}}