factotum
Meaning of factotum
noun
- an employee who does all kinds of work.
he was employed as the general factotum
mid 16th century (originally in the phrases dominum (or magister factotum ), translating roughly as ‘master of everything’, and Johannes factotem ‘John do-it-all’ or ‘Jack of all trades’): from medieval Latin, from Latin fac! ‘do!’ (imperative of facere ) + totum ‘the whole thing’ (neuter of totus ).
Information about factotum
- It is a name.
- The plural form of factotum is: factotums.
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Hyphenation of factotum
fac-to-tum
- It consists of 3 syllables and 8 chars.
- factotum is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
factotum synonyms
Meaning a rough, slapstick comic performance:
Words that rhyme with factotum
Psilotum, glotum, psilotum, remotum, alinotum, mesonotum, metanotum, notum, postnotum, pronotum, asarotum, pseudoscrotum, scrotum, Pesotum, teetotum, tetotum, totum, quotum
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