factum
Americannoun
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facta
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Etymology
Origin of factum
From Latin, dating back to 1740–50; see origin at fact
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As the classic saying goes, “Contra factum non valet argument.”
From New York Times ● Jul. 20, 2010
Between the Latin factum and the modern English ‘fact’ there was a barrier that had to be crossed: a factum requires an agent, a fact does not.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
He went pro later that week, opened a chi-chi boutique on Queen Street, and hired me on as chief picker and factum factotum.
From Craphound by Cory Doctorow
Then might a new St. Jerome say, with greater force than the former one said of Arianism, “Miratus est orbis se esse factum infallibilistam.”
From Letters From Rome on the Council by Johann Joseph Ignaz von D?llinger
For the establishment of a domicile of choice there must be both animus and factum, intention and fact.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 6 "Dodwell" to "Drama" by Various
In facta, I thought it was a goal but no, Pokrivac's rasping low freekick flew inches past the post.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 16, 2010
It might be said of these two societies, as was said of Demosthenes and Themistocles, 'Illius dicta, hujus facta magis valebant.
From Boswell's Correspondence with the Honourable Andrew Erskine, and His Journal of a Tour to Corsica by George Birkbeck Norman Hill
The interdum facta denotes actions repeated at considerable intervals of time; the nonnunquam facta, actions repeated at shorter intervals; the aliquando facta, actions repeated at very distant intervals of time.
From Döderlein's Hand-book of Latin Synonymes by Ludwig Döderlein
It abounds with excellent moral reflections, and the same may be said of it with equal justice as of the Captives:— ‘Ad pudicos mores facta est hæc fabula.’
From History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I by John Dunlop
It reappears in B, with the easy emendation of facta from fata.
From A Sixth-Century Fragment of the Letters of Pliny the Younger A Study of Six Leaves of an Uncial Manuscript Preserved in the Pierpont Morgan Library New York by E. A. (Elias Avery) Lowe
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