fabrica

See also: fábrica, fabricá, fabricà, fàbrica, and fabrică

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fabrica. Doublet of fabric and forge.

Noun

fabrica (plural fabricas or fabricae)

(historical) A workshop in an ancient Roman fort.

Catalan

Verb

fabrica

inflection of fabricar:
1. third-person singular present indicative
2. second-person singular imperative

Interlingua

Noun

fabrica (plural fabricas)

factory

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *dʰh₂ebʰ-

Proto-Indo-European *dʰh₂bʰ-ró-s

Proto-Italic *θaβros

Proto-Italic *faβros

Latin faber

Proto-Indo-European *-kos

Proto-Italic *-kos

Latin -cus

Latin -icus

Latin fabrica

From faber (“craftsman, smith”) +‎ -icus. Originally this was an adjective *fabricus which was mainly used in the two phrases fabrica officīna "workplace of a faber" and fabrica ars "art of a faber", which led to two distinct core meanings.

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈfa.brɪ.ka]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈfaː.bri.ka]

Noun

fabrica f (genitive fabricae); first declension

A smithy, joiner's or smith's shop, workshop.
An art, trade, pursuit, industry, craft, architecture.
A skillful production, fabric, building, structure, fabrication, construct, artifice, machine
(figuratively) A crafty device, wile, trick, stratagem, machination

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	fabrica	fabricae
genitive	fabricae	fabricārum
dative	fabricae	fabricīs
accusative	fabricam	fabricās
ablative	fabricā	fabricīs
vocative	fabrica	fabricae

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

Insular Romance:
- Sardinian:
  - Logudorese: fraiga
  - Nuorese: fravica, brabbica
Italo-Romance:
- Italian: fabbrica
  - → Albanian: fabrikë
  - → Amharic: ፋብሪካ (fabrika)
  - → Ottoman Turkish: فابریقه
    - → Turkish: fabrika
  - → Romanian: fabrică
  - → Tigrinya: ፋብሪካ (fabrika)
  - →? Sicilian: fràbbica
Rhaeto-Romance:
- Friulian: farie
- Romansch: fravie, favgia
Gallo-Romance:
- Catalan: farga
- Old Francoprovençal: favergi, fargi
  - Franco-Provençal: favèrge, fargi, fôrge (possibly from French)
- Old French: faverge, forge (see there for further descendants)
- Old Occitan: favrega, faurga, farga, forga
  - Auvergnat: farja; fàuria (industrial forge)
  - Gascon: harga, hòrga, hàrgua; hàuria (industrial forge)
  - Languedocien: farga
  - Limousin: farja, fòrja
  - Provençal: fabrega
  - Vivaro-Alpine: farja, fabrega, fauria
Ibero-Romance:
- Aragonese: farga, frauga
- Old Galician-Portuguese: frauga, (place name) Fabrega
  - Galician: (dialectal) frauga, (place names) Frádega
  - Portuguese: frágua
- Old Spanish: faurga, fragua
  - → Galician: fragua
  - Spanish: fragua
Ancient borrowings:
- → Albanian: farkë

Learned borrowings:

→ Asturian: fábrica
→ Catalan: fàbrica
→ Crimean Tatar: fabrıqa
→ English: fabrica
→ Franco-Provençal: fabreca
→ French: fabrique (see there for further descendants)
→ Galician: fábrica
→ Macedonian: фабрика (fabrika)
→? Piedmontese: fàbrica
→ Polish: fabryka
- → Belarusian: фа́брыка (fábryka)
- → Kashubian: fabrika, fabrëka
- →? Russian: фа́брика (fábrika)
- → Ukrainian: фа́брика (fábryka)
→ Occitan: fabrica
→ Portuguese: fábrica
→ Russian: фа́брика (fábrika)
- → Ingrian: faabrikka
- → Ingush: фабрик (fabrik)
- → Kazakh: фабрика (fabrika)
- → Solon: fabrik
- → Uzbek: fabrika
- → Yakut: баабырыка (baabïrïka)
→ Spanish: fábrica
→? Venetan: fabrica

References

“fabrica”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“fabrica”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
"fabrica", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
“fabrica”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
“fabrica”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “fabrĭca”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 3: D–F, page 342

Portuguese

Verb

fabrica

inflection of fabricar:
1. third-person singular present indicative
2. second-person singular imperative

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French fabriquer, Latin fabricare. Doublet of forja, from French, and probably of the inherited fereca.

Verb

a fabrica (third-person singular present fabrică, past participle fabricat, third-person subjunctive fabrice) 1st conjugation

to fabricate, invent
to fabricate, manufacture, produce

Conjugation

conjugation of fabrica (first conjugation, no infix)

number		singular			plural
infinitive			a fabrica
gerund			fabricând
past participle			fabricat
person		1st person	2nd person	3rd person	1st person	2nd person	3rd person
indicative		eu	tu	el/ea	noi	voi	ei/ele
	present	fabric	fabrici	fabrică	fabricăm	fabricați	fabrică
	imperfect	fabricam	fabricai	fabrica	fabricam	fabricați	fabricau
	simple perfect	fabricai	fabricași	fabrică	fabricarăm	fabricarăți	fabricară
	pluperfect	fabricasem	fabricaseși	fabricase	fabricaserăm	fabricaserăți	fabricaseră
subjunctive		eu	tu	el/ea	noi	voi	ei/ele
subjunctive	present	să fabric	să fabrici	să fabrice	să fabricăm	să fabricați	să fabrice
imperative		—	tu	—	—	voi	—
	affirmative		fabrică			fabricați
	negative		nu fabrica			nu fabricați

Derived terms

fabricare

Related terms

Spanish

Pronunciation

Rhymes: -ikɐ

IPA^(key): /faˈbɾika/ [faˈβ̞ɾi.ka]
Audio (Chile): (file)
Rhymes: -ika
Syllabification: fa‧bri‧ca

Verb

fabrica

inflection of fabricar:
1. third-person singular present indicative
2. second-person singular imperative

Venetan

Etymology

Compare Italian fabbrica

Noun

fabrica f (plural fabriche)

factory
mill, plant
building (under construction)