faculteit

From Old French faculté, from Latin facultas (“capability, ability, skill, abundance, plenty, stock, goods, properly”), Medieval Latin facultas (“a body of teachers”), another form of facilitas (“easiness, facility, etc.”), from facul, another form of facilis (“easy, facile”). See facile.

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• Hyphenation: fa‧cul‧teit

faculteit f (plural faculteiten, diminutive faculteitje n)

1. college (in the US sense: department of a university dedicated to a given subject), faculty