fack

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -æk

Etymology 1

From Middle English *fak, fec, fæc (“space, compartment”), from Old English fæc (“space of time, while, division, interval; period of five years, lustrum”), from Proto-West Germanic *fak, from Proto-Germanic *faką (“division, department, space”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ǵ-, *paǵ- (“to fasten, fix”). Cognate with West Frisian fek, Dutch vak (“section, compartment”), German Fach (“compartment”), Swedish fack (“compartment, box, department”), Latin pangō (“fasten, fix”). Doublet of Fach.

Alternative forms

• fec (obsolete)

Noun

fack (plural facks)

1. (UK dialectal) One of the four stomachs of a ruminating animal; rumen; paunch.

Etymology 2

Verb

fack (third-person singular simple present facks, present participle facking, simple past and past participle facked)

1. (UK, Cockney, vulgar) Pronunciation spelling of fuck.

Swedish

Etymology

From German Fach (“compartment, drawer”), from Proto-Germanic *faką (“division, department, space”).

Pronunciation

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Noun

fack n

1. a compartment, a box, a slot (often one of several)
2. a trade, a profession, a subject of expertise (seen as a compartment of the larger work life)

   Synonym: gebit

3. (informal) a trade union, a labor union; clipping of fackförening.

Declension

Declension of fack
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	fack	facket	fack	facken
Genitive	facks	fackets	facks	fackens

Related terms

• (compartment): bankfack, frysfack, handskfack, lönnfack, postfack
• (trade): fackansluten, fackidiot, facklitteratur, fackombud, fackspråk, fackförbund, fackförening, facklig

See also

• placera någon i ett fack

References

• fack in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• fack in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• fack in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)