English

fact

/fækt/
Something actual as opposed to invented.

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    Origin

    From Old French fact, from Latin factum (“an act, deed, feat, etc.”); also Medieval Latin for “state, condition, circumstance”; neuter of factus (“done or made”), perfect passive participle of faciō (“do, make”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- (“to put, place, set”). Old/Middle French later evolved it into faict and fait. Doublet of feat.

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    • rootProto-Indo-European*dʰeh₁- “to do, put, place, set”
    • derivedOld Frenchfact
      • derivedLatinfactum “an act, deed, feat, etc.”

    Related: English feat (doublet)

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