facultas

See also: facultás

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *fakelitāts, related to facilis. Doublet of facilitās.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [faˈkʊɫ.taːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [faˈkul.tas]

Noun

facultās f (genitive facultātis); third declension

1. ability to do any thing easily, skill, capacity, power
2. (in the plural) means, resources
3. opportunity, chance

   Synonyms: opportūnitās, occāsiō

4. faculty (group of teachers)

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	facultās	facultātēs
genitive	facultātis	facultātum
dative	facultātī	facultātibus
accusative	facultātem	facultātēs
ablative	facultāte	facultātibus
vocative	facultās	facultātēs

Descendants

• → Albanian: fakulltet
• Catalan: facultat
• → Danish: fakultet
• Old French: faculte
  • → Dutch: faculteit
  • → Middle English: faculte
    • English: faculty
  • French: faculté
    • → Persian: فاکولته (fâkulte)
    • → Romanian: facultate
• Galician: facultade
• → German: Fakultät, Facultät (obsolete)
  • → Polish: fakultet
  • → Russian: факульте́т (fakulʹtét)
    • → Armenian: ֆակուլտետ (fakultet)
    • → Crimean Tatar: fakultet
    • → Georgian: ფაკულტეტი (paḳulṭeṭi)
    • → Kazakh: факультет (faküwlʹtet)
    • → Kyrgyz: факультет (fakultet)
    • → Tajik: факултет (fakultet)
  • → Serbo-Croatian: fakultet, факултет
• → Indonesian: fakultas
• Italian: facoltà
• Piedmontese: facoltà
• Portuguese: faculdade
• Romanian: facultate
• Sicilian: facurtati, facurtà
• Spanish: facultad
• → Swedish: fakultet

References

• “facultas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “facultas”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "facultas", 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)
• “facultas”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to give a man the opportunity of doing a thing: facultatem alicui dare alicuius rei or ut possit...
    
  • to deprive a man of the chance of doing a thing: facultatem, potestatem alicui eripere, adimere
    
  • no opportunity of carrying out an object presents itself: nulla est facultas alicuius rei
    
  • oratorical talent: facultas dicendi
    
  • to be very rich: opibus, divitiis, bonis, facultatibus abundare
    
• facultas in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016

Portuguese

Verb

facultas

1. second-person singular present indicative of facultar

Spanish

Verb

facultas

1. second-person singular present indicative of facultar