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• General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /ˈfæk.əl.ti/
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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.

118 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Czech: fakulta — scholarly staff at colleges or universities
• Esperanto: fakultato — scholarly staff at colleges or universities
• Finnish: opetushenkilökunta — scholarly staff at colleges or universities
• German: Kollegium — scholarly staff at colleges or universities
• German: Lehrpersonal — scholarly staff at colleges or universities
• Japanese: 教授会 (kyōjukai) — scholarly staff at colleges or universities
• Khiamniungan Naga: āchìmhōi — scholarly staff at colleges or universities
• Norwegian Bokmål: fakultet — scholarly staff at colleges or universities
• Norwegian Nynorsk: fakultet — scholarly staff at colleges or universities
• Portuguese: corpo docente — scholarly staff at colleges or universities
• Russian: профе́ссорско-преподава́тельский соста́в (proféssorsko-prepodavátelʹskij sostáv) — scholarly staff at colleges or universities
• Russian: профессу́ра (professúra) — scholarly staff at colleges or universities
• Serbo-Croatian: nastavničko osoblje — scholarly staff at colleges or universities
• Spanish: cuerpo docente — scholarly staff at colleges or universities
• Spanish: claustro — scholarly staff at colleges or universities
• Spanish: profesorado — scholarly staff at colleges or universities
• Swedish: kollegium — scholarly staff at colleges or universities
• Swedish: lärarkollegium — scholarly staff at colleges or universities
• Tagalog: kaguro — scholarly staff at colleges or universities
• Tajik: факултет (fakultet) — scholarly staff at colleges or universities
• Ukrainian: професу́ра (profesúra) — scholarly staff at colleges or universities
• Ukrainian: профе́сорсько-виклада́цький склад (profésorsʹko-vykladácʹkyj sklad) — scholarly staff at colleges or universities
• Arabic: كُلِّيَّة (kulliyya) — division of a university
• Armenian: ֆակուլտետ (fakultet) — division of a university
• Azerbaijani: fakültə — division of a university
• Belarusian: факультэ́т (fakulʹtét) — division of a university
• Belarusian: аддзе́л (addzjél) — division of a university
• Bulgarian: факулте́т (fakultét) — division of a university
• Catalan: facultat — division of a university
• Chinese Mandarin: 系 (xì) — division of a university
• Czech: fakulta — division of a university
• Danish: fakultet — division of a university
• Dutch: faculteit — division of a university
• Esperanto: fakultato — division of a university
• Finnish: tiedekunta — division of a university
• French: faculté — division of a university
• French: composante — division of a university
• French: U.E.R. — division of a university
• French: U.F.R. — division of a university
• Galician: facultade — division of a university
• Georgian: ფაკულტეტი (paḳulṭeṭi) — division of a university
• German: Fakultät — division of a university
• Greek: σχολή (scholí) — division of a university
• Hebrew: פָקוּלְטָה (fakúlta) — division of a university
• Hindi: संकाय (saṅkāy) — division of a university
• Indonesian: fakultas — division of a university
• Italian: facoltà — division of a university
• Japanese: 学部 (gakubu) — division of a university
• Kalmyk: дацң (datsñ) — division of a university
• Kazakh: факультет (fakultet) — division of a university
• Khmer: មហាវិទ្យាល័យ (mɔɔhaavityiəlay) — division of a university
• Korean: 학부 (hakbu) — division of a university
• Korean: 학과 (hakgwa) — division of a university
• Kyrgyz: факультет (fakultet) — division of a university
• Lao: ຄະນະ (kha na) — division of a university
• Macedonian: факулте́т (fakultét) — division of a university
• Norwegian Bokmål: fakultet — division of a university
• Norwegian Nynorsk: fakultet — division of a university
• Persian: دانِشْکَدِه (dâneškade) — division of a university
• Polish: wydział — division of a university
• Polish: fakultet — division of a university
• Portuguese: setor — division of a university
• Portuguese: faculdade — division of a university
• Romanian: facultate — division of a university
• Russian: факульте́т (fakulʹtét) — division of a university
• Russian: отделе́ние (otdelénije) — division of a university
• Serbo-Croatian: факу̀лте̄т — division of a university
• Serbo-Croatian: fakùltēt — division of a university
• Slovak: fakulta — division of a university
• Slovak: oddelenie — division of a university
• Slovene: fakulteta — division of a university
• Spanish: facultad — division of a university
• Swedish: fakultet — division of a university
• Tagalog: kaguruan — division of a university
• Tajik: факултет (fakultet) — division of a university
• Thai: คณะ (ká-ná) — division of a university
• Turkish: fakülte — division of a university
• Ukrainian: факульте́т (fakulʹtét) — division of a university
• Ukrainian: відді́л (viddíl) — division of a university
• Uzbek: fakultet — division of a university
• Bulgarian: спосо́бност (sposóbnost) — ability, skill, or power
• Bulgarian: уме́ние (uménie) — ability, skill, or power
• Catalan: facultat — ability, skill, or power
• Esperanto: fakulto — ability, skill, or power
• Esperanto: kapablo — ability, skill, or power
• Finnish: voima — ability, skill, or power
• Finnish: kyky — ability, skill, or power
• Finnish: taito — ability, skill, or power
• French: faculté — ability, skill, or power
• Galician: facultade — ability, skill, or power
• German: Vermögen — ability, skill, or power
• German: Fähigkeit — ability, skill, or power
• German: Begabung — ability, skill, or power
• Japanese: 技能 (ginō) — ability, skill, or power
• Macedonian: способност (sposobnost) — ability, skill, or power
• Macedonian: вештина (veština) — ability, skill, or power
• Māori: parapara — ability, skill, or power
• Māori: mauri tangata — ability, skill, or power
• Norwegian Bokmål: evne — ability, skill, or power
• Norwegian Nynorsk: evne — ability, skill, or power
• Polish: zdolność — ability, skill, or power
• Portuguese: faculdade — ability, skill, or power
• Romanian: putință — ability, skill, or power
• Romanian: abilitate — ability, skill, or power
• Romanian: capacitate — ability, skill, or power
• Russian: спосо́бность (sposóbnostʹ) — ability, skill, or power
• Russian: возмо́жность (vozmóžnostʹ) — ability, skill, or power
• Russian: дар (dar) — ability, skill, or power
• Scottish Gaelic: ceudfath — ability, skill, or power
• Serbo-Croatian: sposobnost — ability, skill, or power
• Slovene: sposobnost — ability, skill, or power
• Slovene: zmožnost — ability, skill, or power
• Spanish: facultad — ability, skill, or power
• Swedish: färdighet — ability, skill, or power
• Swedish: förmåga — ability, skill, or power
• Turkish: yeti — ability, skill, or power
• Ukrainian: зді́бність (zdíbnistʹ) — ability, skill, or power
• Ukrainian: дар (dar) — ability, skill, or power