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fabrica

noun

fabrica is a noun meaning “A workshop in an ancient Roman fort” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-A-B-R-I-C-A, and it appears about once in every 15 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of fabrica is fabricas or fabricae.

What does fabrica mean?

noun

  1. 1

    A workshop in an ancient Roman fort.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of fabrica

  • fabricas plural
  • fabricae plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is fabrica?

Fabrica appears about once in every 15 million words in written English, the 117,098th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Where does fabrica come from?

Borrowed from Latin fabrica. Doublet of fabric and forge.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).