Factotum

Definition: Factotum

Factotum

Noun

1. A servant employed to do a variety of jobs.

Date "factotum" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

Domain	Definitions
Literature	Factotum One who does for his employer all sorts of services. Sometimes called a Johannes Factotum. Our "Jack-of-all-trades" does not mean a factotum, but one who does odd jobs for anyone who will pay him. (Latin, facere totum, to do everything required.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Agent	Bee, ant, working bee, termite, white ant; laboring oar, servant of all work, factotum.
Consignee	Functionary, placeman, curator; treasurer; factor, bailiff, clerk, secretary, attorney, advocate, solicitor, proctor, broker, underwriter, commission agent, auctioneer, one's man of business; factotum; (director); caretaker; dalal, dubash, garnishee, gomashta.
Director	Secretary, secretary of state; Reis Effendi; vicar; (deputy); steward, factor; agent; bailiff, middleman; foreman, clerk of works; landreeve; factotum, major-domo, seneschal, housekeeper, shepherd, croupier; proctor, procurator.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Factotum

English words defined with "factotum": Both-hands ♦ Do-all ♦ Factotums. (references)

Specialty definitions using "factotum": Weller. (references)

Etymologies containing "factotum": Both-hands. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Factotum" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

French (factotum, handyman, hanger-on, hotel servant), Italian (factotum), Romanian (do all, factotum, jack all-of-trades, jack of all trades).

Domain	Title
Books	Factotum (reference) Isaac Reed: Editorial Factotum (E L S Monograph Series, No 45) (reference) (more book examples)

Periodicals	Factotum (reference) (more periodical examples)

Music	Dogsbody Factotum (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Factotum" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 94.44% of the time. "Factotum" is used about 18 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	94.44%	17	85,106
Noun (proper)	5.56%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	18	N/A

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Language		Translations for "factotum"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		shërbyes që merret me diçka, ekonom (bursar, major domo, manciple). (various references)

Arabic		‏خادم (attendant, boy, flunkey, flunky, footman, knave, lackey, livery, man, manservant, menial, page, retainer, servant, valet, vassal). (various references)

Bulgarian		фактотум (famulus), момче за всичко (do all, famulus, handyman, jack of all trades). (various references)

French		factotum. (various references)

German		Faktotum (handyman, retainer). (various references)

Greek		πολυτεχνίτησ (handyman), υπάλληλοσ για κάθε εργασία. (various references)

Hebrew		משרת (attendant, boy, flunkey, flunky, footman, manservant, official, servant, servitor), כל יכול (almighty, jack of all trades, mighty, omnipotent). (various references)

Hungarian		mindenes (do all, dogsbody, general servant, maid of all work, odd hand, utility man), tótumfaktum (utility, utility man). (various references)

Italian		factotum. (various references)

Pig Latin		actotumfay.(various references)

Portuguese		factótum (Dobbin), navio-fábrica. (various references)

Romanian		factotum (do all, jack all-of-trades, jack of all trades), meşter la toate (jack all-of-trades, jack of all trades). (various references)

Russian		доверенный слуга. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		radnik za sve poslove, majstor svih zanata (do all). (various references)

Spanish		factor (agent, factor), factótum (busybody, handy man). (various references)

Swedish		faktotum (right hand man), allt i allo (utility man). (various references)

Turkish		uşak (body servant, do all, domestic help, flunkey, flunky, footman, helper, henchman, lackey, man, manservant, myrmidon, pursuivant, retainer, servant, servitor, valet, varlet, waiter), kâhya (bailiff, Butler, Chamberlain, do all, estate agent, factor, major domo, steward, utility man), hizmetçi (charwoman, domestic, domestic help, domestic servant, handmaid, help, helper, housemaid, maid, maidservant, menial, servant, servant maid, server, servitor, skivvy, slavey, waiting girl, waiting maid). (various references)

Ukranian		фактотум (do all). (various references)

Vietnamese		người quản gia người l� m mọi thứ việc. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Medieval Latin	700-1500	fac totum. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "factotum": factotums. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Factotum" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: facotum, factote, factotem, Fancott, Fattoun, Fewcott, foctotum. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "factotum" (pronounced 'Fac*to"tum'): Aconitum, Adiantum, Amentum, Arboretum, Datum, Desideratum, Dictum, Equisetum, Erratum, Factum, Fretum, frustum, Hamatum, Incertum, Juramentum, mentum, Mesonotum, Mesorectum, Mesoscutum, Metanotum, momentum, Multum, Notum, Oblatum, Omentum, Petrolatum, Pilentum, Pinetum, Plebiscitum, Postfactum, Postulatum, Prescutum, Prolatum, Pronotum, Punctum, Quantum, Quotum, rectum, sanctum, Sarcoseptum, scrotum, Scutum, septum, sputum, stratum, Striatum, Submentum, substratum, Superstatum, Tapetum, Tegmentum, tomentum, ultimatum, Uncinatum. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-f-m-o-t-t-u"
	-2 letters: outact, tomcat.
	-3 letters: cotta.
	-4 letters: atom, auto, coat, coft, coma, fact, foam, matt, maut, moat, mott, mutt, taco, tact, taut, toft, tofu, tout, tufa, tuft.
	-5 letters: act, aft, amu, att, cam, cat, cot, cum, cut, fat, fou, mac, mat, moa, moc, mot, mut, oaf, oat, oca, oft, out, tam, tao, tat, tau, tom, tot, tut, uta.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-f-m-o-t-t-u"
	+1 letter: factotums.
	+3 letters: multifactor, tumefaction.
	+4 letters: tumefactions.
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