faca

Unknown. Probably not from Latin falx, from which originates fouce (“sickle”).^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈfaka̝/

faca f (plural facas)

1. a large pocketknife
2. (regional) knife

From Old French haque, from Middle English hack, from Hackney, a borough of London famous for its horses. Cognate with Spanish jaca.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfaka̝/

faca f (plural facas)

1. a mare
   • 1455, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros, Vigo: Galaxia, page 316:

     Iten, que furtara a faqa a Pero Gayo da sua casa, que está á par da vila de Ribadauia, da casa que está á par da ponte, et que lla furtara con a sella e con o freo et que fora despois por ela preso ena Cruña

     Item, that he stole the mare of Pedro Gaio, from his house that is near the town of Ribadavia, by the bridge; and that he stole her with saddle and bridle, and that later he was captured because of her in A Coruña

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “faca”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “faqa”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “faca”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “faca”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “faca”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

• facaidh

• IPA^(key): /ˈfˠakə/

faca

1. past indicative dependent analytic of feic

   Ceapaim go bhfaca sé an madra.

   I think that he saw the dog.

• Always occurs either lenited or eclipsed depending on the preverbal particle:

  Ní fhaca mé. ― I didn’t see.

  an áit a bhfaca mé an buachaill inti ― the place where I saw the boy

• Takes the forms of preverbal particles normally associated with the present tense, such as go, an, and nach, rather than gur, ar, and nár:

  An bhfaca tú? ― Did you see?

  Nach bhfaca tú? ― Didn’t you see?

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “faca”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “fhaca”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “fhaca”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025

faca

1. genitive plural of fæc

Unknown.^[1][2] Possibly from Latin falx (“sickle”).

Cognate with Galician faca.

• Rhymes: -akɐ
• Hyphenation: fa‧ca

faca f (plural facas)

1. knife

   Synonym: (Portugal, informal, slang) naifa

From Old Irish ·accae.

• (Lewis) IPA^(key): /ˈfãʰkə/^[1]
• (Uist) IPA^(key): /ˈfãxkə/^[2]

faca

1. past dependent of faic

Borrowed from Venetan fazza.

• IPA^(key): /fât͡sa/
• Hyphenation: fa‧ca

fȁca f (Cyrillic spelling фа̏ца) (colloquial, slang)

1. face, expression

   Synonyms: líce, fizionòmija

2. person, guy

   Synonym: ȍsoba

• “faca”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

• IPA^(key): /ˈfaka/ [ˈfa.ka]
• Rhymes: -aka
• Syllabification: fa‧ca

faca f (plural facas)

1. a curved knife

• “faca”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024