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fack

fack

English

Alternative forms

  • fec (obsolete)

Noun

fack ‎(plural facks)

  1. (Britain dialectal) One of the four stomachs of a ruminating animal; rumen; paunch.

Etymology 2

Verb

fack ‎(third-person singular simple present facks, present participle facking, simple past and past participle facked)

  1. (Britain, eye dialect, Cockney) ****

Swedish

Pronunciation

Noun

fack n

  1. a compartment, a box, a slot (one of several)
  2. a trade, a profession, a subject of expertise (seen as a compartment of the larger work life)
  3. a trade union; Contraction of fackförening.

Declension

Inflection of fack 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative fack facket fack facken
Genitive facks fackets facks fackens

Related terms

  • (compartment): bankfack, frysfack, handskfack, postfack
  • (trade): fackansluten, fackidiot, facklitteratur, fackombud, fackspråk, fackförbund, fackförening, facklig

See also

  • placera någon i ett fack

Etymology

From Middle English *fak, fec, fæc ‎(“space, compartment”), from Old English fæc ‎(“space of time, while, division, interval; period of five years, lustrum”), from Proto-Germanic *faką ‎(“division, department, space”), from Proto-Indo-European *pÀǵ- ‎(“to fasten, fix”). Cognate with West Frisian fek, Dutch vak ‎(“section, compartment”), German Fach ‎(“compartment”), Swedish fack ‎(“compartment, box, department”), Latin pangō ‎(“fasten, fix”).

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