The story
- Latin · derived fromfactīcius
- Old French · derived fromfetis
- Middle English · inherited fromfetis
- English todayfeatous
From Middle English fetis, from Old French fetis, faitis, from Latin factīcius. Doublet of factitious. The spelling reflects an assumption that the word was derived from feat (“dexterous, neat”) + -ous.
Words from the same roots
Latinfactīcius all →
fetish
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.