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factum (pluralfactaorfactums)

1. (law) Somebody's ownact anddeed.

   Fraud in thefactum

   1. (law, civil law) Anything stated and made certain.
   2. (law) The dueexecution of awill, including everything necessary to itsvalidity.
   3. (law, Canada) Astatement offact andlaw delivered before acourt.
      • 2009 January 31, Isabel Teotonio, “Police mole trapped teen, court told”, inToronto Star‎^[1]:

        But according to afactum filed by Crown prosecutors, Shaikh's status was "confidential informer," therefore RCMP did not direct him about what to do at the camp.

2. (mathematics, obsolete) Aproduct(result ofmultiplying two numbers).

• (Classical Latin)IPA^(key): [ˈfak.tũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)IPA^(key): [ˈfak.tum]

• (Classical Latin)IPA^(key): [ˈfak.tũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)IPA^(key): [ˈfak.tum]

factum

1. accusativesupine offaciō andfīō

factum

1. inflection offactus:
   1. nominative/accusative/vocativeneutersingular
   2. accusativemasculinesingular

factum n (genitivefactī);second declension

1. fact,deed,act,doing,work

   Synonyms:facinus,rēs,gestum,āctiō,commissum,coeptum,āctus

   bonumfactum ―a gooddeed

   • 8CE,Ovid,Fasti2.117:

     dī piafacta vident

     The gods see piousdeeds

2. exploit,feat,accomplishment,achievement
   • 29BCE – 19BCE,Virgil,Aeneid4.109:

     [...] “Sī modo quod memorāsfactum fortūna sequātur.”

     [Venus replies to Juno:] “If only thefeat that you are telling [me] about will be met by [good] fortune.”

Second-declension noun (neuter).

• “factum”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879),A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “factum”, inCharlton T. Lewis (1891),An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "factum", in Charles du Fresne du Cange,Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “factum”, inGaffiot, Félix (1934),Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894),Latin Phrase-Book‎^[2], London:Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) to have become independent, be no longer a minor:sui iuris factum esse
    
  • (ambiguous) he feels better:melius ei factum est
    
  • (ambiguous) to be born for a thing, endowed by nature for it:natum, factum esse ad aliquid (faciendum)
    
  • (ambiguous) to pass from myth to history:ut a fabulis ad facta veniamus
    
  • (ambiguous) a work of art:artis opus; opus arte factum orperfectum
    
  • (ambiguous) a master-piece of classical work:opus summo artificio[TR1] factum
    
  • (ambiguous) to be a born orator:natum, factum esse ad dicendum
    
  • (ambiguous) to make virtue the standard in every thought and act:omnia consilia et facta ad virtutem referre (Phil. 10. 10. 20)
    
  • (ambiguous) a good conscience:conscientia recta, recte facti (factorum), virtutis, bene actae vitae, rectae voluntatis
    
  • (ambiguous) to congratulate oneself on one's clear conscience:conscientia recte factorum erigi
    
  • (ambiguous) thought and deed:consilia et facta (cf. sect. X. 1, noteFor 'thoughts and deeds'...)
    
  • (ambiguous) silver plate:argentum (factum) (Verr. 5. 25. 63)
    
  • (ambiguous) the rate of interest has gone up from 4 per cent to 8 per cent:fenus ex triente Id. Quint. factum erat bessibus (Att. 4. 15. 7)
    
  • (ambiguous) to advance to the walls protected by a covering of shields:testudine facta moenia subire (B. G. 2. 6)
    
  • (ambiguous) after capitulation:deditione facta (Sall. Iug. 26)
    
  • (ambiguous) there was great slaughter of fugitives:magna caedes hostium fugientium facta est
    
  • (ambiguous) Asia was made subject to Rome:Asia populi Romani facta est
    

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