factura

See also: facturá

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin factura.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /fəkˈtu.ɾə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /fakˈtu.ɾa/

Noun

factura f (plural factures)

1. bill, invoice

Derived terms

• facturar

Further reading

• “factura” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

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French

Pronunciation

• Homophones: facturas, facturât

Verb

factura

1. third-person singular past historic of facturer

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Latin

Pronunciation

• factūra: (Classical) IPA^(key): /fakˈtuː.ra/, [fakˈt̪uː.ɾa]
• factūra: (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /fakˈtu.ra/, [fakˈt̪uː.ra]
• factūrā: (Classical) IPA^(key): /fakˈtuː.raː/, [fakˈt̪uː.ɾaː]
• factūrā: (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /fakˈtu.ra/, [fakˈt̪uː.ra]

Etymology 1

From factus, from faciō (“do, make”)

Noun

factūra f (genitive factūrae); first declension

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

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	factūra	factūrae
Genitive	factūrae	factūrārum
Dative	factūrae	factūrīs
Accusative	factūram	factūrās
Ablative	factūrā	factūrīs
Vocative	factūra	factūrae

Descendants

• Aromanian: fãpturã (“creature”)
• Asturian: fechura; → factura
• → Catalan: factura
• → French: facture
  • → English: facture
• Friulian: fature
• Galician: feitura; → factura
• Italian: fattura (“craftsmanship, invoice”)
  • → Arabic: فاتورة‎ (fātūra, “invoice, bill”)
  • → Turkish: fatura
• Occitan: fachura (“face”); → factura
• Old French: faiture
  • Anglo-Norman: feture
    • → Middle English: feture
      • English: feature
• Portuguese: feitura; → Portuguese: fatura (semi-learned)
• Romanian: făptură
• Spanish: hechura (“form”)
  • → Tagalog: hitsura
• → Spanish: factura
• Albanian: fytyrë (in part)
• → Russian: факту́ра (faktúra)
• Venetian: fatura

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Participle 1

factūra

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

Participle 2

factūrā

1. ablative feminine singular of factūrus

References

• factura in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• factura in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• factura in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

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Portuguese

Noun

factura f (plural facturas)

1. Alternative spelling of fatura (superseded in Brazil by the 1943 spelling reform, and by the Orthographic Agreement of 1990 elsewhere. Still used in countries where the agreement hasn’t come into effect, and as an alternative spelling in Portugal, where the agreement came into effect in May 2009.)

Verb

factura

1. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present indicative of facturar
2. second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) affirmative imperative of facturar

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /faɡˈtuɾa/, [faɣˈt̪uɾa]

Etymology 1

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

Noun

factura f (plural facturas)

1. bill, invoice
2. (Argentina) Danish pastry

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

Derived terms

• facturar
• pasar factura

 

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

factura

1. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of facturar.
2. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of facturar.

Further reading

• “factura” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.