factotum

Meaning of factotum

noun
  1. 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

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:

knockabout

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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