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Webster 1913 Edition
Fac
Fac
(făk)
, Noun.
[Abbrev. of
facsimile
.] A large ornamental letter used, esp. by the early printers, at the commencement of the chapters and other divisions of a book.
Brande & C.
Definition 2024
fac
fac
English
Noun
fac (plural facs)
- A large ornamental letter formerly used at the start of a chapter or section of a book.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Brande & C to this entry?)
Etymology 2
Clipping of faculty.
Noun
fac (plural facs)
- (colloquial) A faculty within a university.
- 1973, Princeton Alumni Weekly (volume 74, page vii)
- Here's to Hibben. We call him Jack
The whitest man in all the fac.
Of Princeton spirit he does not lack
- Here's to Hibben. We call him Jack
- 2012, Jonathan Dennis, The good die and the bad live on (page 209)
- I had my essay on a memory stick so it just needed to be printed out in the Arts Fac; I'd intended to re-read it for sense but meeting Liv seemed more important.
- 1973, Princeton Alumni Weekly (volume 74, page vii)
Aromanian
Alternative forms
- facu
Đ===Etymology=== From Latin faciō. Compare Romanian face, fac.
Verb
fac (third-person singular present indicative fatsi or fatse, second-person plural present indicative fãtsets, first-person singular imperfect fãtseam, past participle faptã)
Derived terms
Related terms
French
Etymology
Clipping of faculté.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fak/
Noun
fac f (plural facs)
- (informal) university
Synonyms
Romanian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [fak]
Verb
fac
- first-person singular present tense form of face.
- first-person singular subjunctive form of face.
- Doresc să fac ceva.
- I want to do something.
- Doresc să fac ceva.
- third-person plural present tense form of face.