faculty
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faculty
- /ˈfæk.əl.ti/ US, UK
Where it comes from
From Middle English faculte (“power, property”), from Old French faculte, from Latin facultas (“capability, ability, skill, abundance, plenty, stock, goods, property; in Medieval Latin also a body of teachers”), another form of facilitas (“easiness, facility, etc.”), from facul, another form of facilis (“easy, facile”); see facile. Doublet of facility.
noun faculties
- The academic staff at schools, colleges, universities or not-for-profit research institutes, as opposed to the students or support staff.
- A division of a university. She transferred from the Faculty of Science to the Faculty of Medicine.
- An ability, power, or skill. He lived until he reached the age of 90 with most of his faculties intact.
- An authority, power, or privilege conferred by a higher authority. Unless he has bi-ritual faculties, the Latin priest must baptize and confirm the Eastern rite person, whether infant or adult, according to the liturgical books of the Latin church ( canon 846 , §2 ).
- A licence to make alterations to a church.
- The members of a profession.
Similar: ability, attribute, capability, capacity, endowment, faculty, gift, potential, potentiality, power, propensity, property
