The corpus record — Latin

factura

factura · f

a making

Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.

Where it lives

Asinaria 2 · 2.48/10k
De Consolatione ad Polybium 1 · 1.76/10k
Casina 1 · 1.29/10k
Poenulus 1 · 0.91/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 35-38 - 35 1 · 0.79/10k
Ab Urbe Condita, books 26-27 - 26 1 · 0.59/10k
De Anima 1 · 0.42/10k
Satyricon 1 · 0.33/10k
de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum 1 · 0.2/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.19/10k
Historiae Alexandri Magni 1 · 0.13/10k
Annales 1 · 0.11/10k

Densest 12 of 16 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

factūra — Lewis & Short

factūra, ae, f.facio,

I a making, manufacture, formation, = poi/hsis (post-Aug. and very rare).

I Prop.: in nostro orbe aliubi vena bonitatem hanc praestat, aliubi factura, Plin. 34, 14, 41, § 145: corporis totius, Gell. 13, 29, 2; Vulg. Num. 8, 4.—

II Transf., pass., a thing produced or created, a creature, work: anima factura dei est, Prud. Apoth. 792; so id. 856; Vulg. Eph. 2, 10.

In the wild

facturam Tertullian, De Anima 4
facturam Petronius, Satyricon 45
facturam Seneca, De Consolatione ad Polybium 11.11.1
facturam Cicero, de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum 5.40
facturam Livy, Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 35-38 - 35 p35
facturam Plautus, Asinaria 4.1

6 of 18 attestations shown.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.