fabrica

Latin

fabrica (plural fabricas or fabricae)

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

fabrica

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

fabrica (plural fabricas)

1. factory

Derived from faber (“forger, smith”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈfa.bri.ka/, [ˈfa.brɪ.ka]

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.
4. (figuratively) A crafty device, wile, trick, stratagem.

First declension.

• fabricensis
• fabricor
• fabricula

• Franco-Provençal: favèrge
• Old French: faverge, forge
  • French: forge
    • → Catalan: forja
    • → Franco-Provençal: fôrge
    • → Galician: forxa
    • → Italian: forgia
    • → Portuguese: forja
    • → Romanian: forjă
    • → Spanish: forja
  • → English: forge
• Old Occitan: faurga
  • Catalan: farga
  • Occitan: farga, fòrga
• Old Portuguese:
  • Portuguese: frágua
• Old Spanish: faurga, fragua
  • Spanish: fragua
• Sardinian: fràiga, fravica
• → Albanian: farkë (earlier borrowing from Vulgar Latin), fabrikë (later borrowing)
• → Asturian: fábrica
• → Catalan: fàbrica
• → Crimean Tatar: fabrıqa, fabrika
• → English: fabrica
• → Franco-Provençal: fabreca
• → French: fabrique
  • → Dutch: fabriek
    • Afrikaans: fabriek
    • → Malay: pabrik
      • Indonesian: pabrik
  • → English: fabric
    • → Irish: fabraic
  • → German: Fabrik
    • → Danish: fabrik
      • → Greenlandic: fabrikki
    • → Lower Sorbian: fabrika
    • → Serbo-Croatian:

      Cyrillic: фабрика

      Latin: fabrika

    • → Swedish: fabrik
    • → Turkmen: fabrik
  • → Luxembourgish: Fabréck
  • → Norwegian: fabrikk
  • → Vilamovian: fabryk
  • → West Frisian: fabryk
  • → Yiddish: פֿאַבריק‎ (fabrik)
• → Galician: fábrica
• → Italian: fabbrica
  • → Romanian: fabrică
  • → Turkish: fabrika
• → Macedonian: фабрика (fabrika)
• → Polish: fabryka
• → Occitan: fabrega, fabrica
• → Portuguese: fábrica
• → Russian: фа́брика (fábrika)
  • → Solon: fabrik
• → Spanish: fábrica
• → Venetian: fabrica

• 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, 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

fabrica

1. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present indicative of fabricar
2. second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) affirmative imperative of fabricar

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

• IPA^(key): /faˈbɾika/, [faˈβɾika]

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fabrica

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of fabricar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of fabricar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of fabricar.

Compare Italian fabbrica

fabrica f (plural fabriche)

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