facción

See also: faccion

Galician

Alternative forms

• facçom, façom, fação, facção (reintegrationist)

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /fakˈθjoŋ/ [fɑkˈθjoŋ]

• IPA^(key): (standard) /fakˈθjoŋ/ [fɑkˈθjoŋ]
• IPA^(key): (seseo) /fakˈsjoŋ/ [fɑkˈsjoŋ]

• Rhymes: -oŋ
• Hyphenation: fac‧ción

Noun

facción f (plural faccións)

1. faction, group

Further reading

• “facción”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2024

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin factiōnem. Doublet of fashion.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /faɡˈθjon/ [faɣ̞ˈθjõn]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /faɡˈsjon/ [faɣ̞ˈsjõn]

• Audio (Venezuela):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -on
• Syllabification: fac‧ción

Noun

facción f (plural facciones)

1. faction, group
2. (usually in the plural) trait, facial feature

   Synonyms: rasgo, hechura

Related terms

• autosatisfacción
• calefacción
• estupefacción
• hacer
• hecho
• putrefacción
• refacción
• rubefacción (“flushing, rubefaction”)
• satisfacción
• torrefacción
• tumefacción

 

Further reading

• “facción”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28