factotum
英式音标：factotum怎么读
美式音标：factotum怎么读
词汇归类： GRE
近义词： servant
factotum词义
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n. 家务总管；杂役；杂工
词态变化
复数: factotums;
中文词源
factotum 事务总管
fac-,做，词源同fact. totum,总的，词源同total. 用来指事务总管。
factotum双语例句
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- 1. We need a factotum to take care of the workshop.
- 我们需要一个杂役来负责车间的事情。
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factotum英文词源
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- factotum
- factotum: [16] A factotum is literally someone who ‘does everything’. It was coined from fac, the imperative form of the Latin verb facere ‘do’, and tōtum ‘all’ (source of English total). Originally it was used virtually as a name, in phrases such as ‘Master Factotum’, and it does not seem to have been until the late 18th century that it settled into its current role as an ordinary noun.
=> fact, total - factotum (n.)
- "one who does all kinds of work for another," 1560s, from Medieval Latin factotum "do everything," from fac, imperative of facere "to make, do" (see factitious) + totum "all" (see total (adj.)).