different between defacto vs facto

English

Noun

defacto (plural defactos)

1. Alternative form of de facto
   • 1992, University of New South Wales Aboriginal Law Research Unit, Aboriginal Law Bulletin, Issue 31, unidentified page,

     Homicide, assault, rape, and suicide occur as a result of Aboriginal men?s fear of loss of a valued relationship and jealousy over their wives or defactos.

   • 2001, Jude McCulloch, Blue Army: Paramilitary Policing in Australia, page 51,

     The police role […] has tended to exclude a whole class of people — wives, defactos, girlfriends and daughters, or past wives, defactos and girlfriends from the protection of the criminal law, too often with tragic consequences.

   • 2007, Jo Barnes, 4: Murder Followed by Suicide in Australia, 1973—1992: A research note, Diane Kholos Wysocki, Readings in Social Research Methods, page 36,

     Of the 250 victims in this sample, 50.4 percent were or had been in an intimate relationship with the offender (intimates are defined as present and past spouses, defactos and lovers).

Further reading

• de facto, defacto at Google Ngram Viewer

Latin

Participle

d?fact?

1. dative masculine singular of d?factus
2. dative neuter singular of d?factus
3. ablative masculine singular of d?factus
4. ablative neuter singular of d?factus

English

Etymology

Latin, ablative of factum (“deed, fact”).

Adverb

facto (not comparable)

1. (law) in fact; by the act or fact

Related terms

• de facto
• ipso facto

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?fak.to?/, [?fäkt?o?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?fak.to/, [?f?kt??]

Etymology 1

From faci? +? -t?.

Verb

fact? (present infinitive fact?re, perfect active fact?v?, supine fact?tum); first conjugation

1. I make, do, or perform regularly or frequently.

Conjugation

Derived terms

• factit?

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Noun

fact?

1. dative singular of factum
2. ablative singular of factum

Participle

fact?

1. dative masculine singular of factus
2. dative neuter singular of factus
3. ablative masculine singular of factus
4. ablative neuter singular of factus

References

• facto in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• facto in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• fato (Brazil)

Etymology

From Latin factum. Cognate of feito.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fak.tu/
• Hyphenation: fac?to

Noun

facto m (plural factos) (European orthography)

1. (Portugal) fact (something which is real)

Derived terms

• de facto

Related terms

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin factum. Compare the inherited doublet hecho.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fa?to/, [?fa??.t?o]

Noun

facto

1. (archaic) fact (something which is real)

Particle

facto

1. Only used in de facto