See factour in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
{
"descendants": [
{
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"word": "factor"
},
{
"descendants": [
{
"lang": "Scots",
"lang_code": "sco",
"word": "factor"
}
],
"lang": "Middle Scots",
"lang_code": "gmw-msc",
"word": "factour"
},
{
"descendants": [
{
"lang": "Scots",
"lang_code": "sco",
"word": "factor"
}
],
"lang": "Middle Scots",
"lang_code": "gmw-msc",
"word": "factor"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "frm",
"3": "facteur"
},
"expansion": "Borrowed from Middle French facteur",
"name": "bor+"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "xno",
"3": "factour"
},
"expansion": "Anglo-Norman factour",
"name": "bor"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "etymon"
},
"expansion": "etymon",
"name": "glossary"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "la",
"3": "factor",
"t": "maker"
},
"expansion": "Latin factor (“maker”)",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "faytour",
"nocap": "1"
},
"expansion": "doublet of faytour",
"name": "doublet"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "1432",
"nocap": "1"
},
"expansion": "first attested in 1432",
"name": "etydate"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Borrowed from Middle French facteur and Anglo-Norman factour, and their etymon Latin factor (“maker”). Thus a doublet of faytour; first attested in 1432.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "factours",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "noun",
"g": "",
"g2": "",
"g3": "",
"head": "",
"sort": ""
},
"expansion": "factour",
"name": "head"
},
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "factour (plural factours)",
"name": "enm-noun"
}
],
"lang": "Middle English",
"lang_code": "enm",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "34 44 16 7",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Late Middle English",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "22 47 19 12",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Middle English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "100 0 0",
"kind": "other",
"langcode": "enm",
"name": "Business",
"orig": "enm:Business",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "68 20 12",
"kind": "other",
"langcode": "enm",
"name": "Household",
"orig": "enm:Household",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "51 0 49",
"kind": "other",
"langcode": "enm",
"name": "People",
"orig": "enm:People",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A commission agent; a merchant who engages in commerce on behalf of another."
],
"id": "en-factour-enm-noun-5NQKNlH1",
"links": [
[
"commission agent",
"commission agent"
],
[
"merchant",
"merchant"
],
[
"engage",
"engage"
],
[
"commerce",
"commerce"
],
[
"behalf",
"behalf"
]
],
"tags": [
"Late-Middle-English"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Early Scots",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Any representative of another (especially as a steward of an estate)"
],
"id": "en-factour-enm-noun-UNS-~3S9",
"links": [
[
"representative",
"representative"
],
[
"another",
"another"
],
[
"steward",
"steward#English"
],
[
"estate",
"estate#English"
]
],
"qualifier": "Early Scots",
"raw_glosses": [
"(Early Scots) Any representative of another (especially as a steward of an estate)"
],
"tags": [
"Late-Middle-English"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "51 0 49",
"kind": "other",
"langcode": "enm",
"name": "People",
"orig": "enm:People",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A perpetrator or actor; someone who does something."
],
"id": "en-factour-enm-noun-boDbuCXr",
"links": [
[
"perpetrator",
"perpetrator"
],
[
"actor",
"actor"
],
[
"someone",
"someone"
],
[
"something",
"something"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(rare) A perpetrator or actor; someone who does something."
],
"tags": [
"Late-Middle-English",
"rare"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/fakˈtuːr/"
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈfaktur/"
}
],
"word": "factour"
}
{
"categories": [
"Late Middle English",
"Middle English doublets",
"Middle English entries with incorrect language header",
"Middle English lemmas",
"Middle English nouns",
"Middle English terms borrowed from Anglo-Norman",
"Middle English terms borrowed from Middle French",
"Middle English terms derived from Anglo-Norman",
"Middle English terms derived from Latin",
"Middle English terms derived from Middle French",
"Pages with 2 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"enm:Business",
"enm:Household",
"enm:People"
],
"descendants": [
{
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"word": "factor"
},
{
"descendants": [
{
"lang": "Scots",
"lang_code": "sco",
"word": "factor"
}
],
"lang": "Middle Scots",
"lang_code": "gmw-msc",
"word": "factour"
},
{
"descendants": [
{
"lang": "Scots",
"lang_code": "sco",
"word": "factor"
}
],
"lang": "Middle Scots",
"lang_code": "gmw-msc",
"word": "factor"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "frm",
"3": "facteur"
},
"expansion": "Borrowed from Middle French facteur",
"name": "bor+"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "xno",
"3": "factour"
},
"expansion": "Anglo-Norman factour",
"name": "bor"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "etymon"
},
"expansion": "etymon",
"name": "glossary"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "la",
"3": "factor",
"t": "maker"
},
"expansion": "Latin factor (“maker”)",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "faytour",
"nocap": "1"
},
"expansion": "doublet of faytour",
"name": "doublet"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "1432",
"nocap": "1"
},
"expansion": "first attested in 1432",
"name": "etydate"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Borrowed from Middle French facteur and Anglo-Norman factour, and their etymon Latin factor (“maker”). Thus a doublet of faytour; first attested in 1432.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "factours",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "noun",
"g": "",
"g2": "",
"g3": "",
"head": "",
"sort": ""
},
"expansion": "factour",
"name": "head"
},
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "factour (plural factours)",
"name": "enm-noun"
}
],
"lang": "Middle English",
"lang_code": "enm",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"A commission agent; a merchant who engages in commerce on behalf of another."
],
"links": [
[
"commission agent",
"commission agent"
],
[
"merchant",
"merchant"
],
[
"engage",
"engage"
],
[
"commerce",
"commerce"
],
[
"behalf",
"behalf"
]
],
"tags": [
"Late-Middle-English"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Early Scots"
],
"glosses": [
"Any representative of another (especially as a steward of an estate)"
],
"links": [
[
"representative",
"representative"
],
[
"another",
"another"
],
[
"steward",
"steward#English"
],
[
"estate",
"estate#English"
]
],
"qualifier": "Early Scots",
"raw_glosses": [
"(Early Scots) Any representative of another (especially as a steward of an estate)"
],
"tags": [
"Late-Middle-English"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Middle English terms with rare senses"
],
"glosses": [
"A perpetrator or actor; someone who does something."
],
"links": [
[
"perpetrator",
"perpetrator"
],
[
"actor",
"actor"
],
[
"someone",
"someone"
],
[
"something",
"something"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(rare) A perpetrator or actor; someone who does something."
],
"tags": [
"Late-Middle-English",
"rare"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/fakˈtuːr/"
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈfaktur/"
}
],
"word": "factour"
}
Download raw JSONL data for factour meaning in Middle English (3.1kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Middle English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-07-09 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-07-06 using wiktextract (e62056b and e7887d5). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.