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facticio

Spanish, adjective/faɡˈtiθjo/

facticio is a Spanish adjective meaning “factitious” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Que debe su ser al arte y no a la naturaleza”.

What does facticio mean in English?

adjective

  1. 1

    factitious

Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Spanish dictionaries define it

adjective: 1. Que debe su ser al arte y no a la naturaleza. 2. Se dice de una publicación que incluye o compila diversos impresos.

The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.

Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of facticio

  • facticia feminine
  • facticios masculine plural
  • facticias feminine plural

Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce facticio?

  • /faɡˈtiθjo/
  • [faɣ̞ˈt̪i.θjo]
  • /faɡˈtisjo/

Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to facticio

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is facticio in Spanish?

facticio appears about once in every 43 million words in written Spanish.

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