English word factor comes from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-, and later Proto-Italic *fakiō (To make.)
| Dictionary entry | Language | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| *dʰeh₁- | Proto-Indo-European (ine) | |
| *fakiō | Proto-Italic (itc-pro) | To make. |
| facio | Romanian (ron) | |
| facio | Latin (lat) | I appoint.. I do. I make, construct, fashion, frame, build, erect. I make, produce, compose. |
| hacer | Spanish (es) | (reflexive) to become; to get. (reflexive) to get used to. To do, to make. To play (a part in a play). |
| factus | Latin (lat) | |
| factor | Latin (lat) | One who or which does or makes something; doer, maker, performer, perpetrator, agent, player. |
| facteur | Middle French (frm) | |
| factor | English (en) | (Scotland) A steward or bailiff of an estate.. (economics) A resource used in the production of goods or services, a factor of production.. (legal). (mathematics) Any of various objects multiplied together to form some whole.. (now, _, rare) An agent or representative.. (obsolete) A doer, maker; a person who does things for another person or organization.. (root cause analysis) Influence; a [...] |