Where does “factie” come from?
factie (Dutch) comes from French faction, from Latin factiō, from Latin factus, from Latin faciō, from Latin -torium, from Latin -tōrius, from Latin -tor, from Proto-Italic -tōr.
factie (Dutch): faction, clique, a temporary opportunistic alliance between politicians who are otherwise unaligned
Definitions
- faction, clique, a temporary opportunistic alliance between politicians who are otherwise unaligned
Ancestry of “factie”, step by step
factie traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via French faction
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | faction | act of keeping watch; a watchman; a faction;... |
| 2 | Latin | factiō | a political faction, a group of people acting together |
| 3 | Latin | factus | done, made, having been done or made; became |
| 4 | Latin | faciō | to do |
| 5 | Latin | -torium | nominative neuter singular of -tōrius; accusative... |
| 6 | Latin | -tōrius | ory |
| 7 | Latin | -tor | -er |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | -tōr | Forms agent nouns to verb stems |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -tōr | Derives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone... |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | -tor-s | — |
via Middle French faction
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Middle French | faction | — |