factio

Latin[edit]

From faciō (“I make, do”) +‎ -tiō (action noun suffix), with a metaphorical primary meaning.

factiō f (genitive factiōnis); third declension

a political faction, a group of people acting together
- 2003, Hannelore Zöllner, Eximia victoria Stoiberiana [1], Nuntii Latini Radio Bremen, Septembris 2003
  Christiana Unio Socialis tantam victoriam assecuta est, quantam in Germania nulla umquam factio ex electionibus liberis tulerat: abhinc Bavariam regere poterit duabus partibus [2/3] legatorum nisa.
  The Christian Social Union has achieved a victory that no other party in Germany has carried out: henceforth it will rule Bavaria holding two thirds of the legislature.
a company of charioteers
(rare) an act of making or doing; a preparation

Old French: façon, facon
- Middle French: façon
  - French: façon
    - Haitian Creole: fason
    - → Alemannic German: Fasung
    - → Danish: facon
    - → Russian: фасон (fason)
      - → Uzbek: fason
  - French: façon
- Norman: faichon
- → Middle Dutch: fatchoen, faetsoen
  - Dutch: fatsoen
- → Middle English: facioun
  - English: fashion (see there for further descendants)
Old Portuguese: feiçon, faiçon
- Portuguese: feição
→ Catalan: facció
→ Czech: fakce
→ Danish: faktion
→ Irish: faicsean
→ Italian: fazione
→ Middle French: faction
- French: faction
- → Dutch: factie
- → English: faction
→ Romanian: facțiune
→ Portuguese: facção
→ Spanish: facción

factio in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
factio in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
factio in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
factio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
- a party; faction: factio (of aristocrats)