Translation
invoice, bill
Word origin
From Latin factura, 'a making, a piece of work', from facere 'to do, to make', reaching Esperanto through French facture and Italian fattura. The commercial sense grew out of the merchant's list of things made and supplied.
- Origin
- Latin, via French
- Root
- factura
- English cognates
- invoice, manufacture, fact
Examples
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The client has still not paid the invoice.
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She sent the invoice to the new shop.
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The invoice shows the price of each item.
Two traps sit in this word, and both come from words the learner already has.
The first is a false seam. Fako means a department or a compartment, and -ur- looks vaguely suffix-shaped, so invites reading as "something to do with departments". It is not. - is one indivisible root; there is no - inside it and no productive -- suffix in Esperanto to pull out.
The second is fakto, a fact. Here the connection is genuine but useless: both descend from Latin facere, "to do", and then went in completely different directions - a factum is a thing done, a factura is a thing made and charged for. Knowing the Latin will not help you guess the Esperanto, so learn them as two words. A is the piece of paper that says what you owe; the verb is fakturi, to invoice.
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