facture

See also: facturé

English

Etymology

From French facture (“a making, invoice”), from Latin factura (“a making”). See fact.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfæk.tʃə/
• IPA^(key): /ˈfæk.tʃəɹ/

Noun

facture (plural factures)

1. (archaic) The act or manner of making or doing anything, especially of a literary, musical, or pictorial production.

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2. (dated, business) An invoice or bill of parcels.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “facture”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• furcate

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin factūra. Compare the inherited Old French faiture.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fak.tyʁ/

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

facture f (plural factures)

1. bill, invoice
2. craft, making, fabric

Verb

facture

1. first-person singular present indicative of facturer
2. third-person singular present indicative of facturer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of facturer
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of facturer
5. second-person singular imperative of facturer

Further reading

• “facture”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• facteur

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Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /fakˈtuː.re/, [fäkˈt̪uːrɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /fakˈtu.re/, [fäkˈt̪uːre]

Participle

(deprecated template usage) factūre

1. vocative masculine singular of factūrus

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Portuguese

Verb

facture

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Spanish

Verb

facture

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of facturar.
2. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of facturar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of facturar.