fabrica

Latin

fabrica (plural fabricas or fabricae)

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

fabrica

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

fabrica (plural fabricas)

1. factory

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.

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

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

First-declension noun.

• fabricensis
• fabricor
• fabricula

Learned borrowings:

• “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 (in German), volumes 3: D–F, page 342

fabrica

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

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

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

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

• fabricare

• fabrică
• fabricație

• Rhymes: -ikɐ
• IPA^(key): /faˈbɾika/ [faˈβ̞ɾi.ka]

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

fabrica

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

Compare Italian fabbrica

fabrica f (plural fabriche)

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