The corpus record — Latin

factus

factus · P. a

Part. and P. a., from facio

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

Where it lives

Catilina 5 · 4.69/10k
de bello Gildonico 1 · 3.16/10k
Mostellaria 3 · 3.12/10k
Pro M. Tullio 1 · 2.91/10k
Timaeus 1 · 2.37/10k
De Bello Hispaniensi 1 · 1.65/10k
Stichus 1 · 1.61/10k
Aulularia 1 · 1.45/10k
De Vita Beata 1 · 1.38/10k
Casina 1 · 1.29/10k
Florida 1 · 1.27/10k
Persa 1 · 1.27/10k

Densest 12 of 45 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. factus — Lewis & Short

factus, a, um, P. a., from facio.

Part. and

2. factus — Lewis & Short

factus, ūs, m. (also factum, i, n.,

Varr. R. R. 1, 24, 3; Col. 12, 50, 19 and 22) [facio]. *

I A making, building, style of architecture: quo ornatior villa esse posset fructu quam factu, Varr. R. R. 3, 1, 10: iste mulus me ad factum dabit (= me ad opus rusticum feret), Inscr. Momms. 5078.—

II (Cf. factor, II. A., and factorium), the quantity of oil pressed out at one time, a pressing, Cato, R. R. 67, 1; Varr. R. R. 1, 24, 3; Col. 12, 52, 19; 22; Plin. 15, 6, 6, § 23.

In the wild

factu Cicero, Letters to and from Quintus 3.1.6
factu Cicero, De Oratore 1.104
factu Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 27.7.8
factu Seneca, De Vita Beata 7.2.2
factu Claudian, de bello Gildonico 1.387
factu Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares 15.10.1

6 of 72 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. factus (scan p. 235; entry #3639).

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