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faber est quisque fortunae suae [L], everyone is the architect of his
own fortune: Sallust.
fabliau [Fr; pi. fabliaux], one of the short metrical tales or contes told
by the trouvères (minstrels) in the 12th and 13th centuries.
fábrica [Sp], factory; plant; mill; elee, powerhouse.
façade [Fr], front, usually of building; also a false front; something
intended to create a false impression: a façade of gentility.
fâcheux [Fr; fern, fâcheuse], grievous; vexatious; troublesome.
facies non omnibus una nec diversa tarnen [L], the features are not
the same in all respects, nor are they quite different: Ovid.
facile [Fr & It], easy; light; fluent: music.
facile est inventis addere [L], it is easy to add to things already invented.
facile largire de alieno [L], it is easy to be generous with what is
another's.
facile princeps [L], easily chief (or first).
facilis descensus Averno (or Averni) [L], the descent to Avernus (or
hell) is easy: Virgil.
facilité de parler, c'est impuissance de se taire [Fr], fluency of speech
is (often) inability to hold the tongue: Rousseau.
facinus quos inquinat aequat [L], crime equalizes those whom it
contaminates: Lucan.
facio ut des [L], lit., I do that you may give; a form of contract: law.
facio ut facias [L], lit., I do that you may do; a form of contract: law.
Facit [Ger], result; product; sum: arith.
facit indignatio versum [L], indignation produces verse, righteous
anger flames into verse: Juvenal.
façon [Fr], fashion; manner; way; style. —façon de parler, way of
speaking; manner of speech.
facta non verba [L], deeds, not words.
facteur [Fr], agent; postman; letter carrier.
factum est [L], it is done.
factura [Sp], invoice.
fac ut sciam [L], lit., make me know (or be aware); tell me.
fade [Fr], insipid; stale; flat; dull; pointless.
faenum habet in cornu, longe fuge [L], he has hay on his horn (the
mark of a dangerous bull); stay away from him; beware of him, he
is vicious: Horace.
faex populi [L; pi. faeces populi], dregs (or scum) of the people; the
rabble: Cicero.
Fahlband [Ger], lit., fallow band; a zone or stratum of rock, permeated
with metallic sulfides and become a rusty brown through oxidation.