fabrica

See also: fábrica, fabricá, fabricà, fàbrica, and fabrică

English

Etymology

Latin. Doublet of fabric and forge.

Noun

fabrica (plural fabricas or fabricae)

1. (historical) A workshop in an ancient Roman fort.

Catalan

Verb

fabrica

1. inflection of fabricar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Interlingua

Noun

fabrica (plural fabricas)

1. factory

Latin

Etymology

From faber (“craftsman, smith”) +‎ -icus. Originally this was an adjective *fabricus which was mainly used in the two phrases fabrica officīna "workplace of a faber" and fabrica ars "art of a faber", which led to two distinct core meanings.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈfa.bri.ka/, [ˈfäbrɪkä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈfa.bri.ka/, [ˈfäːbrikä]

Noun

fabrica f (genitive fabricae); first declension

1. A smithy, joiner's or smith's shop, workshop.
2. An art, trade, pursuit, industry, craft, architecture.
3. A skillful production, fabric, building, structure, fabrication, construct, artifice, machine
4. (figuratively) A crafty device, wile, trick, stratagem, machination

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	fabrica	fabricae
genitive	fabricae	fabricārum
dative	fabricae	fabricīs
accusative	fabricam	fabricās
ablative	fabricā	fabricīs
vocative	fabrica	fabricae

Derived terms

• fabricensis
• fabricor
• fabricula

Related terms

Related terms

• faber
• fabrē
• fabrēfaciō
• fabrēfactus
• fabricābilis
• fabricātiō
• fabricātor
• fabricātōrius
• fabricātrīx
• fabricātus
• fabrificātiō
• fabrīlis
• fabrīliter
• fabriō

Descendants

• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: fabbrica
    • → Albanian: fabrikë
    • → Amharic: ፋብሪካ (fabrika)
    • → Ottoman Turkish: فابریقه
      • → Turkish: fabrika
    • → Romanian: fabrică
    • → Tigrinya: ፋብሪካ (fabrika)
    • →? Sicilian: fràbbica
• Padanian:
  • Friulian: farie
  • Romansch: fravie, favgia
• Northern Gallo-Romance:
  • Old Francoprovençal: favergi, fargi
    • Franco-Provençal: favèrge, fargi, fôrge (possibly from French)
  • Old French: faverge, forge (see there for further descendants)
• Southern Gallo-Romance:
  • Aragonese: farga, frauga
  • Catalan: farga
  • Old Occitan: favrega, faurga, farga, forga
    • Auvergnat: farja; fàuria (industrial forge)
    • Gascon: harga, hòrga, hàrgua; hàuria (industrial forge)
    • Languedocien: farga
    • Limousin: farja, fòrja
    • Provençal: fabrega
    • Vivaro-Alpine: farja, fabrega, fauria
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: frauga
    • Galician: frauga
    • Portuguese: frágua
  • Old Spanish: faurga, fragua
    • Spanish: fragua
• Insular Romance:
  • Logudorese: fraiga
  • Nuorese: fravica, brabbica
• Ancient borrowings:
  • → Albanian: farkë

Learned borrowings:

• Asturian: fábrica
• Catalan: fàbrica
• Crimean Tatar: fabrıqa
• English: fabrica
• Franco-Provençal: fabreca
• French: fabrique (see there for further descendants)
• Galician: fábrica
• Macedonian: фабрика (fabrika)
• Piedmontese: fàbrica
• → Polish: fabryka (learned)
  • → Belarusian: фа́брыка (fábryka)
  • → Kashubian: fabrika, fabrëka
  • → Ukrainian: фа́брика (fábryka)
• Occitan: fabrica
• Portuguese: fábrica
• Russian: фа́брика (fábrika)
  • → Ingrian: faabrikka
  • → Ingush: фабрик (fabrik)
  • → Kazakh: фабрика (fabrika)
  • → Solon: fabrik
  • → Uzbek: fabrika
  • → Yakut: баабырыка (baabırıka)
• Spanish: fábrica
• Venetan: fabrica

References

• “fabrica”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “fabrica”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• fabrica in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• fabrica in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “fabrica”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “fabrĭca”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 3: D–F, page 342

Portuguese

Verb

fabrica

1. inflection of fabricar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French fabriquer, Latin fabricare. Doublet of forja, from French, and probably of the inherited fereca.

Verb

a fabrica (third-person singular present fabrică, past participle fabricat) 1st conjugation

1. to fabricate, invent
2. to fabricate, manufacture, produce

Conjugation

    conjugation of fabrica (first conjugation, no infix)

infinitive			a fabrica
gerund			fabricând
past participle			fabricat
number		singular			plural
person		1st person	2nd person	3rd person	1st person	2nd person	3rd person
indicative		eu	tu	el/ea	noi	voi	ei/ele
	present	fabric	fabrici	fabrică	fabricăm	fabricați	fabrică
	imperfect	fabricam	fabricai	fabrica	fabricam	fabricați	fabricau
	simple perfect	fabricai	fabricași	fabrică	fabricarăm	fabricarăți	fabricară
	pluperfect	fabricasem	fabricaseși	fabricase	fabricaserăm	fabricaserăți	fabricaseră
subjunctive		eu	tu	el/ea	noi	voi	ei/ele
	present	să fabric	să fabrici	să fabrice	să fabricăm	să fabricați	să fabrice
imperative		—	tu	—	—	voi	—
	affirmative		fabrică			fabricați
	negative		nu fabrica			nu fabricați

Derived terms

• fabricare

Related terms

• fabrică
• fabricație

Spanish

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ikɐ

• IPA^(key): /faˈbɾika/ [faˈβ̞ɾi.ka]

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• Rhymes: -ika
• Syllabification: fa‧bri‧ca

Verb

fabrica

1. inflection of fabricar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Venetan

Etymology

Compare Italian fabbrica

Noun

fabrica f (plural fabriche)

1. factory
2. mill, plant
3. building (under construction)