
English word factor comes from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-, and later Proto-Italic *fakiō (To make.)
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*dʰeh₁- (Proto-Indo-European)
*fakiō (Proto-Italic)
To make.
facio (Romanian)
facio (Latin)
I appoint.. I do. I make, construct, fashion, frame, build, erect. I make, produce, compose.
hacer (Spanish)
(reflexive) to become; to get. (reflexive) to get used to. To do, to make. To play (a part in a play).
factus (Latin)
factor (Latin)
One who or which does or makes something; doer, maker, performer, perpetrator, agent, player.
facteur (Middle French)
factor (English)
(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 [...]