Etymograph

English

fazenda

Fazenda comes from Portuguese fazenda ‘farm’, from Latin faciendus ‘which is to do’, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- ‘to put, place, set’.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*dʰeh₁-1‘to put, place, set’reconstructed
  2. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEfaciō1‘do, make’
  3. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEfaciendus1‘which is to do’
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEfacienda1form of faciendus
  5. Old Galician-Portuguesec. 1100–1500fazenda1
  6. Portuguesec. 1500–presentfazenda2‘farm’
  7. Englishearliest quotation 1912fazenda2

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, Portuguese fazenda
  2. 2 Wiktionary, English fazenda
  3. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […]: “In his hospitable fazenda we spent our time until…”.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*dʰeh₁-Wiktionary, Portuguese fazenda‘to put, place, set’reconstructed
  2. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEfaciōWiktionary, Portuguese fazenda‘do, make’
  3. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEfaciendusWiktionary, Portuguese fazenda‘which is to do’
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEfaciendaWiktionary, Portuguese fazendaform of faciendus
  5. Old Galician-Portuguesec. 1100–1500fazendaWiktionary, Portuguese fazenda
  6. Portuguesec. 1500–presentfazendaWiktionary, English fazenda‘farm’
  7. Englishearliest quotation 1912fazendaWiktionary, English fazenda. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […]: “In his hospitable fazenda we spent our time until…”

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- ‘to put, place, set’

do, deal, hot, mid, defense, fair, benefit, fan, fashion, theme, custom, ethnic, defence, treasury, treasure, sufficient, ethical, thesis, aesthetic, feast, synthetic, theology, doom, tick, deed, dis, atheist, ethic, auditorium, auditor, defendant, atheism, demi, deem, spade, thematic, ethos, forfeit, feral, medial, 126 more

through Latin faciō ‘do, make’

perfect, face, fact, difficult, effect, feature, profit, affect, facility, infection, sacrifice, efficient, faculty, affair, deficit, feat, facial, facilitate, defect, efficacy, fetish, superficial, counterfeit, infect, facade, deficient, facsimile, maleficent, aficionado, efficacious, beautify, confection, difficile, refectory, parfait, confit, facies, beneficent, 84 more

through Latin facienda

hacienda, 2 more

Today it means

noun A Brazilian plantation, often associated with slavery during the colonial period.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “fazenda”; the older steps come from the Wiktionary entry for Portuguese fazenda. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- / fazenda

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