faculty

The story

1. Latin · derived fromfacultas“capability, ability, skill, abundance, plenty, stock, goods, property; in Medieval Latin also a body of teachers”
2. Old French · derived fromfaculte
3. Middle English · inherited fromfaculte“power, property”
4. English todayfaculty

From Middle English faculte (“power, property”), from Old French faculte, from Latin facultas (“capability, ability, skill, abundance, plenty, stock, goods, property; in Medieval Latin also a body of teachers”), another form of facilitas (“easiness, facility, etc.”), from facul, another form of facilis (“easy, facile”); see facile. Doublet of facility.