different between fac vs fas

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fæk/

Etymology 1

Clipping of facsimile.

Noun

fac (plural facs)

1. 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)

1. (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

   • 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.

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)

1. 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)

1. (informal, France) university

   Synonym: univ

Ladin

Noun

fac

1. plural of fat

Latin

Verb

fac

1. second-person singular present active imperative of faci?

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [fak]

Verb

fac

1. first-person singular present indicative of face
2. first-person singular present subjunctive of face

3. third-person plural present indicative of face

English

Noun

fas

1. plural of fa

Anagrams

• AFS, AFs, FSA, SAF, SFA, asf

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?fas/
• Rhymes: -as

Noun

fas

1. plural of fa

Verb

fas

1. second-person singular present indicative form of fer

Galician

Etymology 1

Verb

fas

1. second-person singular present indicative of facer

Etymology 2

Noun

fas m pl

1. plural of fa

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fa?s/
• Rhymes: -a?s

Verb

fas

1. singular imperative of fasen

Hlai

Pronunciation

• (Standard Hlai) IPA^(key): /fa?/

Etymology 1

From Proto-Hlai *f?a?? (“sky”), from Pre-Hlai *fa?? (Norquest, 2015). Compare Proto-Tai *va?? (“sky; weather”) (whence Thai ??? (fáa)).

Noun

fas

1. sky

Etymology 2

From Proto-Hlai *C-wa?? (“sour”), from Pre-Hlai *C-wa?? (Norquest, 2015).

Adjective

fas

1. sour

Icelandic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fa?s/

  Rhymes: -a?s

Noun

fas n (genitive singular fass, no plural)

1. deportment, manner

Declension

Indonesian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?fas]
• Hyphenation: fas
• Rhymes: -as

Noun

fas (first-person possessive fasku, second-person possessive fasmu, third-person possessive fasnya)

1. Alternative spelling of vas (“vase”)

Jamaican Creole

Adjective

fas

1. Alternative spelling of fast.

Latin

Alternative forms

• ph?s (medieval)

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *b?eh?os (“utterance, saying”), a derivative of the root *b?eh?- (“to speak”) whence also Latin for, f?r?.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /fa?s/, [fä?s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /fas/, [f?s]

Noun

f?s n sg (indeclinable, no genitive)

1. (uncountable) dictates of religion, divine law (opp. i?s, human law), or an obligation thereunder

   hoc contra ius fasque est

   this is against law and divine law

   • Corpus Reformatorum, volume 38, page 235:

     Itaque si fas non est patris, vel filii, patrui vel nepotis uxorem habere in matrimonio, unum et idem de fratris uxore sentire convenit: de qua similis prorsus lex uno contextu et tenore perlata est.

     And so if divine law is that the father, or the son, the uncle or the nephew are not to have a wife in marriage, it comes together as one and the same thing about the brother's wife: from which a similar law is conveyed by means of connecting and grasping [a pattern].

2. (uncountable) the will of God; a predetermined destiny
   • Aeneid I.206:

     illic fas regna resurgere Troiae.

     There it is divine will that the kingdom of Troy shall rise again.

Declension

Not declined; used only in the nominative and accusative singular., singular only.

Derived terms

• f?stus
• nef?s

References

• fas in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• fas in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• fas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
• fas in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• fas in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, ?ISBN, page 203

Middle English

Noun

fas

1. Alternative form of fass

Northern Sami

Pronunciation

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /?fas/

Etymology

From Proto-Samic *vëst?.

Adverb

fas

1. again, once more
2. on the other hand

Further reading

• Koponen, Eino; Ruppel, Klaas; Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002-2008) Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages?^[3], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

fas

1. imperative of fase

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f?s/

Noun

fas n

1. Alternative form of fæs

Swedish

Pronunciation

Noun

fas c

1. a phase, a time period
2. a phase (angular difference in periodic waves)

   i fas, ur fas

   in phase, out of phase

3. a sloping edge

Declension

Related terms

• fasa
• fasett

References

• fas in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /va?s/

Noun

fas

1. Soft mutation of bas.

Mutation

Adverb

fas

1. Soft mutation of mas.

Mutation

Wolof

Etymology

From Arabic ?????? (faras).

Pronunciation

Noun

fas (definite form fas wi)

1. horse