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Morph lab

FACTUM → hecho · fait · fatto

Spanish hecho kept no sound of FACTUM's f, a or k, yet the k's ghost is the ch; French and Portuguese write the same ghost as the i of fait and feito, and Catalan fet absorbed it; Italian simply doubled the t, as in notte, while Romanian turned the k into p: fapt, now a noun, 'deed, fact'.

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Spoken Latin

FACTUM

‘done, made’

ItalianStep 1 of 3
/ˈfaktum/

Classical Latin past participle of FACERE 'to do, make'

SpanishStep 1 of 6
/ˈfaktum/

Classical Latin past participle of FACERE 'to do, make'

FrenchStep 1 of 4
/ˈfaktum/

Classical Latin past participle of FACERE 'to do, make'

PortugueseStep 1 of 3
/ˈfaktum/

Classical Latin past participle of FACERE 'to do, make'

RomanianStep 1 of 3
/ˈfaktum/

Classical Latin past participle of FACERE 'to do, make'

CatalanStep 1 of 4
/ˈfaktum/

Classical Latin past participle of FACERE 'to do, make'

Spanish hecho kept no sound of FACTUM's f, a or k, yet the k's ghost is the ch; French and Portuguese write the same ghost as the i of fait and feito, and Catalan fet absorbed it; Italian simply doubled the t, as in notte, while Romanian turned the k into p: fapt, now a noun, 'deed, fact'.

Forms are written in IPA, the International Phonetic Alphabet: one symbol, one sound. Stressed syllables carry ˈ. Dates are approximate and given only where the handbooks agree. 24 word journeys.