Where does “faction” come from?
faction (French) comes from Latin factiō, from Latin factus, from Latin faciō, from Latin -torium, from Latin -tōrius, from Latin -tor, from Proto-Italic -tōr, from Proto-Indo-European -tōr.
faction (French): act of keeping watch; a watchman; a faction;...
Definitions
- act of keeping watch; a watchman; a faction;...
Ancestry of “faction”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Latin | factiō | a political faction, a group of people acting together |
| 2 | Latin | factus | done, made, having been done or made; became |
| 3 | Latin | faciō | to do |
| 4 | Latin | -torium | nominative neuter singular of -tōrius; accusative... |
| 5 | Latin | -tōrius | ory |
| 6 | Latin | -tor | -er |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | -tōr | Forms agent nouns to verb stems |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | -tōr | Derives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone... |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -tor-s | — |