faire
Middle French
verb
Definitions
- to do
- to make
- to choose; to elect
Etymology
Inherited from Old French faire inherited from Latin facere (do, make).
Origin
Latin
facere
Gloss
do, make
Concept
Semantic Field
Basic actions and technology
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- ad- Latin
- deficio Latin
- facere Latin
- facio Latin
- faciō, facere, facio Latin
- fare Italian
- affaire French
- défaire French
- faire French
- faire-part French
- faisable French
- méfaire French
- parfaire French
- facer Spanish, Castilian
- *dʰeh₁- Proto-Indo-European
- حَسَنَة Arabic
- desfaire Old French
- faire Old French
- fesable Old French
- mesfaire Old French
- face Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- faire Norman
- bien Middle French
- bienfaire Middle French
- fazer Old Portuguese
- fatsiri Aromanian
- faire Occitan
- *fakiō Proto-Italic
- facer Asturian
- faer Asturian
- fâ Friulian
- far Old Occitan
- fazer Old Spanish
- fari Sicilian
- far Venetian
- fâ Ligurian
- facro Dalmatian
- fè Haitian, Haitian Creole
- fer Mauritian Creole
- fé Walloon
- fé Ladin
- fàchere Sardinian
- fàghere Sardinian
- fà Neapolitan
- fà Istriot
- fà Corsican
- fer Aragonese
- fais Louisiana Creole French
- faerr Gallo
- fè Antillean Creole
- fazir Sabir