faculté
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See also: faculte
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Learned borrowing from Latin facultātem. Doublet of facilité.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]faculté f (plural facultés)
- capacity; ability
- faculty
- (archaic) financial resources; assets; property
- 1791, National Constituent Assembly, Constitution française, présentée au roi par l'Assemblée nationale, le 3 septembre 1791 [French constitution, presented to the King by the National Assembly on 3 September 1791], Dijon: Imprimerie de P. Causse, page 4:
- Pour l'entretien de la force publique, et pour les dépenses d'administration, une contribution commune est indispensable; elle doit être également répartie entre les citoyens, en raison de leurs facultés.
- For the maintenance of the public force, and for the expenses of the administration, a common contribution is indispensable; it must be equally distributed among the citizens, with regard to their faculties.
- department (of a university)
- (by extension) a university
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → Persian: فاکولته (fâkulte)
Further reading
[edit]- “faculté”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle French
[edit]Noun
[edit]faculté f (plural facultez)
Spanish
[edit]Verb
[edit]faculté
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