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    [Noun]  | "fac*to*tum" | \ fak-ˈtō-təm \


    1: a person having many diverse activities or responsibilities

    2: a general servant


    Origin: 1562 ;

     From the Latin phrase fac tōtum "do all!", from fac (singular imperative of facere "to make, do" + tōtum "the whole, entirety," from neuter of tōtus "all, the whole of") {mat|fact|}, {mat|total:1|};

      * Note : Perhaps originally short for dominus/domine factotum, magister factotum, and parallel expressions that mean approximately "jack-of-all-trades," though evidence for the isolated collocation fac totum is nearly as early. Martin Luther uses fac totum in the non-personal sense "that which does everything" in his commentary on Galatians (1535): "Est igitur fides fac totum (ut ita loquar) in operibus" ("It is faith, as I so speak, that is the do-all in works").;

    [Noun]  | "factotum" 


    1: a person whose job involves doing many different types of work;


      * e.g., " ... He was the office factotum. "





     [ "factotum" ]

    1: n. A man who never had a job he liked; and never kept a job he had.

      * e.g.,  ... On such jobs a factotum becomes tired. They experience weariness beyond fatigue. They say mad, brilliant things. Out of my head, I cussed and talked and cracked jokes and sang. Hell boils with laughter. 

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