fac

Clipping of facsimile.

fac (plural facs)

1. A large ornamental letter formerly used at the start of a chapter or section of a book.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Brande & C to this entry?)

Clipping of faculty.

fac (plural facs)

1. (colloquial) A faculty within a university.
   • 1973, Princeton Alumni Weekly (volume 74, page vii)

     Here's to Hibben. We call him Jack
     The whitest man in all the fac.
     Of Princeton spirit he does not lack

   • 2012, Jonathan Dennis, The good die and the bad live on (page 209)

     I had my essay on a memory stick so it just needed to be printed out in the Arts Fac; I'd intended to re-read it for sense but meeting Liv seemed more important.

• ACF, AFC, CAF, CFA, FCA, caf

• facu

From Latin faciō. Compare Romanian face, fac.

fac (third-person singular present indicative fatsi or fatse, second-person plural present indicative fãtsets, first-person singular imperfect fãtseam, past participle faptã)

1. I do, make.

• fãcãtor

• fatsiri/fatsire, fãtseari/fãtseare
• faptu
• faptã

Clipping of faculté.

• IPA^(key): /fak/

• Audio (Paris)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ak

fac f (plural facs)

1. (informal, France) university

   Synonym: univ

fac

1. plural of fat

fac

1. second-person singular present active imperative of faciō

• IPA^(key): [fak]

fac

1. first-person singular present indicative of face
2. first-person singular present subjunctive of face

   Doresc să fac ceva.

   I want to do something.

3. third-person plural present indicative of face