Where does “factotum” come from?

factotum (Dutch) comes from New Latin factotum, from Latin fac, from Latin facēre.

factotum (Dutch): factotum jack-of-all-trades

Definitions

  1. factotum jack-of-all-trades

Ancestry of “factotum”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1New Latinfactotum
2Latinfacsecond-person singular present active imperative...
3Latinfacēre
Every word from Latin facēre