Noun: facha
Gender: f
mf
m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | facha |
| Singular f | facha |
| Plural m | fachas |
| Plural f | fachas |
Sample Sentences
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c1350, Kelvin M. Parker (ed.), Historia Troyana. Santiago: Instituto "Padre Sarmiento", p. 57 (in the room there were a great light because of the candles and torches burning there)
Nouns inflected like facha
baloncestista,
somalí,
activista,
sevillista,
ordenanza,
paciente,
trompetista,
bengalí,
chantaxe,
chavista,
paracaidista,
ximnasta,
liberticida,
clarividente,
baldreu,
baldreo,
flagelante,
florista,
comandante,
xadrecista, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
14th century. From Old Galician-Portuguese facha, from Vulgar Latin *fascla, from syncopation of *fascula, from Latin facula (“small torch”) crossed with fascis (“bundle”). Compare Portuguese facha, Spanish hacha. See: Latin Nouns '
facula', Spanish Nouns '
hacha'.
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