factotum

Definitions


[fakˈtəʊtəm], (Noun)

Definitions:
- an employee who does all kinds of work
(e.g: he was employed as the general factotum)


Phrases:

Origin:
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)




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