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bac
English
Etymology
From French bac.
Noun
bac (plural bacs)
- A broad, flat-bottomed ferryboat, usually worked by a rope.
- A vat or cistern.
Anagrams
- A. B. C., A.B.C., ABC, B. C. A., B.C.A., BCA, CAB, CBA, Cab, cab
Albanian
Alternative forms
- bacë
Etymology
From Proto-Albanian *batja. According to Orel bac/bacë could be related to Slavic Proto-Slavic *bat'a (“elder brother, uncle”) and Proto-Slavic *batja (“id”). Source of Romanian baci (“chief shepherd, cheese-maker”) and Megleno-Romanian/Aromanian batš (“id”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [bat?s]
Noun
bac m (indefinite plural bacë, definite singular baca, definite plural bacët)
- elder brother
- uncle
References
Catalan
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA(key): /?bak/
Noun
bac m (plural bacs)
- ferry
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bak/
Etymology 1
From Middle French bac, from Old French bas, bac- (“flat boat”), of obscure origin. Possibly from Vulgar Latin *baccu (“container”), from Latin bacar (“kind of wine glass”). Or, possibly borrowed from Celtic or Germanic, from Proto-Germanic *bak? (“back, rear”).
Noun
bac m (plural bacs)
- ferry
- vat
Derived terms
Descendants
- ? Dutch: bak
- Afrikaans: bak
- ? Sranan Tongo: baki
- ? Indonesian: bak, baki
- ? English: bac
Etymology 2
Clipping of baccalauréat.
Noun
bac m (plural bacs)
- (informal) high school exit exam in France; A level
Related terms
- bachelier
Further reading
- “bac” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- abc
Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish bacc (“angle, bend, corner”), from Proto-Celtic *bakkos (“hook”).
The verb is from Old Irish baccaid (“hinders, prevents, impairs; lames”), from the noun.
Pronunciation
- (Munster, Aran) IPA(key): /b??k/
- (Cois Fharraige, Mayo, Ulster) IPA(key): /b?ak/
Noun
bac m (genitive singular baic, nominative plural baic)
- barrier, block, balk, hindrance
- bottleneck, trap
- blocking, obstruction
- constraint, handicap, impediment, encumbrance
- stop
- mattock
- bend (in river, etc.)
- (door-)step
- (law) stay (of proceedings)
Declension
Derived terms
Verb
bac (present analytic bacann, future analytic bacfaidh, verbal noun bacadh, past participle bactha) (transitive, intransitive)
- obstruct, balk, hinder
- impede, block, clog
- pre-empt
- bind
- foul
- (transitive with le) interfere, meddle with
- heed
Conjugation
Mutation
References
- "bac" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
Middle English
Noun
bac
- Alternative form of bak (“back”)
Romanian
Etymology 1
Borrowed from French bac.
Noun
bac n (plural bacuri)
- ferry
Etymology 2
Clipping of bacalaureat
Noun
bac n (plural bacuri)
- baccalaureat
Scottish Gaelic
Etymology
From Old Irish baccaid (“hinders, prevents, impairs; lames”), from bacc (“angle, bend, corner”), from Proto-Celtic *bakkos (“hook”).
Noun
bac m (genitive singular baca or baic, plural bacan)
- delay, obstacle, hindrance
- peat bank
- sandbank
Verb
bac (past bhac, future bacaidh, verbal noun bacadh, past participle bacte)
- prevent, hinder, obstruct, restrain
Derived terms
- bac an tùs
Mutation
Welsh
Noun
bac
- Soft mutation of pac.
Mutation
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fac
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fæk/
Etymology 1
Clipping of facsimile.
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)
Anagrams
- ACF, AFC, CAF, CFA, FCA, caf
Aromanian
Alternative forms
- facu
Etymology
From Latin faci?. 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)
- I do, make.
Derived terms
- fãcãtor
Related terms
- fatsiri/fatsire, fãtseari/fãtseare,
- fãtseri
- faptu
- faptã
French
Etymology
Clipping of faculté.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fak/
- Rhymes: -ak
Noun
fac f (plural facs)
- (informal, France) university
- Synonym: univ
Ladin
Noun
fac
- plural of fat
Latin
Verb
fac
- second-person singular present active imperative of faci?
Romanian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [fak]
Verb
fac
- first-person singular present indicative of face
- first-person singular present subjunctive of face
- third-person plural present indicative of face
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