factura

See also: facturá

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin factūra.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Northern, Balearic, Central) [fəkˈtu.ɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia, Northwestern) [fakˈtu.ɾa]

• Audio (Barcelona):

  (file)

Noun

factura f (plural factures)

1. manufacture, making, shaping

   Synonyms: execució, afaiçonament

2. bill, invoice

Derived terms

• facturar

Further reading

• “factura”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

French

Pronunciation

• Homophones: facturas, facturât

Verb

factura

1. third-person singular past historic of facturer

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-

Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁k-

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *dʰh₁kyéti

Proto-Italic *θakjō

Proto-Italic *fakjō

Latin faciō

Proto-Indo-European *-tew-?

Proto-Indo-European *-r-eh₂?

Latin -tūra

Latin factūra

From faciō + -tūra.

Pronunciation 1

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [fakˈtuː.ra]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [fakˈtuː.ra]

Participle

factūra

1. inflection of factūrus:
   1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

Noun

factūra f (genitive factūrae); first declension

1. a making; manufacture
2. a thing that has been manufactured

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	factūra	factūrae
genitive	factūrae	factūrārum
dative	factūrae	factūrīs
accusative	factūram	factūrās
ablative	factūrā	factūrīs
vocative	factūra	factūrae

Descendants

• Balkano-Romance:
  • Aromanian: fãpturã
  • Romanian: făptură
• Italo-Dalmatian:
  • Italian: fattura
    • → Albanian: faturë
    • → Arabic: فاتورة (fātūra)
    • → Turkish: fatura
  • Venetan: fatura
• Rhaeto-Romance:
  • Friulian: fature
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Occitan: fachura
  • Old French: faiture
    • Anglo-Norman: feture
      • → Middle English: feture
        • → English: feature
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Asturian: fechura
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: feitura
    • Galician: feitura
    • Portuguese: feitura
  • Spanish: hechura
    • → Cebuano: hitsura
    • → Tagalog: hitsura

Borrowings:

• → Albanian: fytyrë (partially)
• → Asturian: factura
• → Basque: faktura
• → Bulgarian: факту́ра (faktúra)
• → Catalan: factura
• → Czech: faktura
• → Danish: faktura
• → English: facture
• → Esperanto: fakturo
• → French: facture
• → Galician: factura
• → German: Faktur, Faktura
  • → Polish: faktura
• → Ido: fakturo
• → Macedonian: факту́ра (faktúra)
• → Norwegian:

  Bokmål: faktura

  Nynorsk: faktura

• → Occitan: factura
• → Portuguese: fatura (semi-learned)
• → Russian: факту́ра (faktúra)
• → Spanish: factura
• → Swedish: faktura

Pronunciation 2

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [fakˈtuː.raː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [fakˈtuː.ra]

Participle

factūrā

1. ablative feminine singular of factūrus

Noun

factūrā

1. ablative singular of factūra

References

• “factura”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "factura", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “factura”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Portuguese

Etymology 1

Noun

factura f (plural facturas)

1. pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1990 in Portugal) of fatura; still used where the agreement hasn’t come into effect and may occur as a sporadic misspelling

Etymology 2

Verb

factura

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

Further reading

• “factura”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French facturer.

Verb

a factura (third-person singular present facturează, past participle facturat) 1st conjugation

1. to charge, to invoice, to bill

Conjugation

    conjugation of factura (first conjugation, -ez- infix)

infinitive			a factura
gerund			facturând
past participle			facturat
number		singular			plural
person		1st person	2nd person	3rd person	1st person	2nd person	3rd person
indicative		eu	tu	el/ea	noi	voi	ei/ele
	present	facturez	facturezi	facturează	facturăm	facturați	facturează
	imperfect	facturam	facturai	factura	facturam	facturați	facturau
	simple perfect	facturai	facturași	factură	facturarăm	facturarăți	facturară
	pluperfect	facturasem	facturaseși	facturase	facturaserăm	facturaserăți	facturaseră
subjunctive		eu	tu	el/ea	noi	voi	ei/ele
	present	să facturez	să facturezi	să factureze	să facturăm	să facturați	să factureze
imperative		—	tu	—	—	voi	—
	affirmative		facturează			facturați
	negative		nu factura			nu facturați

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /faɡˈtuɾa/ [faɣ̞ˈt̪u.ɾa]
• Rhymes: -uɾa
• Syllabification: fac‧tu‧ra

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin factūra. Compare hechura, inherited from the same source.

In the sense of a pastry, named by members of the Argentinian baker’s union to subversively call attention to the value of their labor.

Noun

factura f (plural facturas)

1. bill, invoice

   Synonym: albarán

2. quality, caliber

   Estas son de muy buena factura ― These are of very good quality

3. (Argentina) Danish pastry [from 1887]

   Synonyms: pan danés, masa danesa, (Uruguay) bizcocho

Derived terms

• facturar
• pasar factura

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

factura

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

Further reading

• “factura”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025