# factura
## Catalan
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin factūra.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [fəkˈtu.ɾə]
* IPA: (Valencia) [fakˈtu.ɾa]

### Noun

factura f (plural factures)
* bill, invoice

#### Derived terms

* facturar

### Further reading

* “factura” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

## French
### Pronunciation

* Homophones: facturas, facturât

### Verb

factura
* third-person singular past historic of facturer

## Latin
### Pronunciation

* factūra: (Classical Latin) IPA: /fakˈtuː.ra/, [fäkˈt̪uːrä]
* factūra: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /fakˈtu.ra/, [fäkˈt̪uːrä]
* factūrā: (Classical Latin) IPA: /fakˈtuː.raː/, [fäkˈt̪uːräː]
* factūrā: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /fakˈtu.ra/, [fäkˈt̪uːrä]

### Etymology 1

From faciō +‎ -tūra.

#### Noun

factūra f (genitive factūrae); first declension
* a making, manufacture
* a thing that has been manufactured

##### Declension

First-declension noun.

##### Descendants

* → Albanian: fytyrë (in part)
* → Arabic: فاتورة (fātūra, “invoice, bill”)
* Aromanian: fãpturã (“creature”)
* Asturian: fechura; → factura
* → Catalan: factura
* → Czech: faktura (“invoice, bill”)
* → Danish: faktura (“invoice, bill”)
* → English: facture
* → French: facture
* → Friulian: fature
* Galician: feitura; → factura
* → German: Faktur, → Faktura
* → Italian: fattura (“craftsmanship, invoice”)
** Turkish: fatura
* Norwegian:
    Bokmål: → Norwegian Bokmål: faktura (“invoice, bill”)
    Nynorsk: → Norwegian Nynorsk: faktura (“invoice, bill”)
* Occitan: fachura (“face”); → factura
* Old French: faiture
** Anglo-Norman: feture
*** → Middle English: feture
**** → English: feature
* Portuguese: feitura; → Portuguese: fatura (semi-learned)
* Romanian: făptură
* → Russian: факту́ра (faktúra)
* Spanish: hechura (“form”); → Spanish: factura
* → Swedish: faktura (“invoice, bill”)
* → Tagalog: hitsura
* → Venetan: fatura

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Participle

factūra
* inflection of factūrus:
** nominative/vocative feminine singular
** nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

#### Participle

factūrā
* ablative feminine singular of factūrus

### References

* “factura”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* "factura", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
* factura in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

## Portuguese
### Etymology 1
#### Noun

factura f (plural facturas)
* Pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1990 in Portugal) of fatura. Still used in countries where the agreement hasn't come into effect; may occur as a sporadic misspelling.

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

factura
* inflection of facturar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French facturer.

### Verb

a factura (third-person singular present facturează, past participle facturat) 1st conjugation
* to charge, to invoice, to bill

#### Conjugation
## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /faɡˈtuɾa/ [faɣ̞ˈt̪u.ɾa]
* Rhymes: -uɾa
* Syllabification: fac‧tu‧ra

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin factūra. Compare hechura, inherited from the same source.

#### Noun

factura f (plural facturas)
* bill, invoice
    Synonym: albarán

##### Derived terms

* facturar
* pasar factura

### Etymology 2

Named by members of the Argentinian baker’s union to subversively call attention to the value of their labor.

#### Noun

factura f (plural facturas)
* (Argentina) Danish pastry
    Synonyms: pan danés, masa danesa, (Uruguay) bizcocho

### Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

factura
* inflection of facturar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

### Further reading

* “factura”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

### References

* ↑ Treon, Rebecca (2017 November 2) “The surprising origin of Argentina’s brazen pastry names”, in bbc.com