factorium

== Latin == === Etymology === From faciō (“to do, make”) +‎ -tōrium, or equivalently factor (“doer, maker”) +‎ -ium; the person who pressed olives in an oil-press was called a factor, and the oil produced was called factum. Compare calcātōrium (“winepress”). === Noun === factōrium n (genitive factōriī or factōrī); second declension An oil-press ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter). 1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age). ==== Descendants ==== Italian: fattoio === References === “factorium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “factorium”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. “factorium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers “factorium”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin