Latin

Noun

facultās f ‎(genitive facultātis); third declension

1. ability, skill
2. opportunity, chance

Inflection

Third declension.

Descendants

• English: faculty
• French: faculté
• Italian: facoltà
• Spanish: facultad

References

• facultas in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• facultas in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• FACULTAS in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “facultas”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to give a man the opportunity of doing a thing: facultatem alicui dare alicuius rei or ut possit...
    
  • to deprive a man of the chance of doing a thing: facultatem, potestatem alicui eripere, adimere
    
  • no opportunity of carrying out an object presents itself: nulla est facultas alicuius rei
    
  • oratorical talent: facultas dicendi
    
  • to be very rich: opibus, divitiis, bonis, facultatibus abundare
    
• facultas in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016

Portuguese

Verb

facultas

1. second-person singular present indicative of facultar

Spanish

Verb

facultas

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) present indicative form of facultar.