fabrica
English
editEtymology
editNoun
editfabrica (plural fabricas or fabricae)
- (historical) A workshop in an ancient Roman fort.
Catalan
editVerb
editfabrica
- inflection of fabricar:
Interlingua
editNoun
editfabrica (plural fabricas)
Latin
editEtymology
editFrom faber (“craftsman, smith”) + -icus. Originally this was an adjective *fabricus which was mainly used in the two phrases fabrica officīna "workplace of a faber" and fabrica ars "art of a faber", which led to two distinct core meanings.
Pronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈfa.bri.ka/, [ˈfäbrɪkä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈfa.bri.ka/, [ˈfäːbrikä]
Noun
editfabrica f (genitive fabricae); first declension
- A smithy, joiner's or smith's shop, workshop.
- An art, trade, pursuit, industry, craft, architecture.
- A skillful production, fabric, building, structure, fabrication, construct, artifice, machine
- (figuratively) A crafty device, wile, trick, stratagem, machination
Declension
editFirst-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | fabrica | fabricae |
Genitive | fabricae | fabricārum |
Dative | fabricae | fabricīs |
Accusative | fabricam | fabricās |
Ablative | fabricā | fabricīs |
Vocative | fabrica | fabricae |
Derived terms
editRelated terms
editRelated terms
Descendants
edit- Italo-Romance:
- Padanian:
- Northern Gallo-Romance:
- Southern Gallo-Romance:
- Ibero-Romance:
- Insular Romance:
- Ancient borrowings:
- → Albanian: farkë
Learned borrowings:
- Asturian: fábrica
- Catalan: fàbrica
- Crimean Tatar: fabrıqa
- English: fabrica
- Franco-Provençal: fabreca
- French: fabrique (see there for further descendants)
- Galician: fábrica
- Macedonian: фабрика (fabrika)
- Piedmontese: fàbrica
- → Polish: fabryka (learned)
- Occitan: fabrica
- Portuguese: fábrica
- Russian: фа́брика (fábrika)
- Spanish: fábrica
- Venetian: fabrica
References
edit- “fabrica”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “fabrica”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- fabrica 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)
- fabrica in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “fabrica”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “fabrĭca”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 3: D–F, page 342
Portuguese
editVerb
editfabrica
- inflection of fabricar:
Romanian
editEtymology
editBorrowed from French fabriquer, Latin fabricare. Doublet of forja, from French, and probably of the inherited fereca.
Verb
edita fabrica (third-person singular present fabrică, past participle fabricat) 1st conj.
- to fabricate, invent
- to fabricate, manufacture, produce
Conjugation
edit conjugation of fabrica (first conjugation, no infix)
infinitive | a fabrica | ||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
gerund | fabricând | ||||||
past participle | fabricat | ||||||
number | singular | plural | |||||
person | 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | |
indicative | eu | tu | el/ea | noi | voi | ei/ele | |
present | fabric | fabrici | fabrică | fabricăm | fabricați | fabrică | |
imperfect | fabricam | fabricai | fabrica | fabricam | fabricați | fabricau | |
simple perfect | fabricai | fabricași | fabrică | fabricarăm | fabricarăți | fabricară | |
pluperfect | fabricasem | fabricaseși | fabricase | fabricaserăm | fabricaserăți | fabricaseră | |
subjunctive | eu | tu | el/ea | noi | voi | ei/ele | |
present | să fabric | să fabrici | să fabrice | să fabricăm | să fabricați | să fabrice | |
imperative | — | tu | — | — | voi | — | |
affirmative | fabrică | fabricați | |||||
negative | nu fabrica | nu fabricați |
Derived terms
editRelated terms
editSpanish
editPronunciation
edit- Rhymes: -ikɐ
Verb
editfabrica
- inflection of fabricar:
Venetian
editEtymology
editNoun
editfabrica f (plural fabriche)
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