English → Latin
“fabrication” in Latin
fābricātiōstructure (something made or formed); making (act of)fabricaA smithy, joiner's or smith's shop, workshop.; An art, trade, pursuit, industry, craft, architecture.; A skillful producfictiōfashioning, forming, formation; fictioncōnfictiōfabrication, inventioncommentīciusinvented, devised, fabricated; imaginary; fictitiousmōnstrōto show, point out, indicate, demonstrate; to appoint, ordain; to denounce, indictportendōto indicate, point out; to predict, foretell, portend
The English word fabrication itself goes back to Latin fabrica, through fabricatio.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
fabrication
PROPR., fabricatio (Cic.): fabrica (PROP., the work-shop of a faber; then his art, or any work of his; and, IMPROP., of the scientific or artificial preparation of any structure or compound).
IMPROPR., fictio (Quint.): confictio (Cic., as act): res ficta, or commenticia, or ficta et commenticia. Monstrous fabrications, monstra, portenta: a mere fabrication, mera mendacia (plur.).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for fabrication?
- The usual Latin words for “fabrication” are fābricātiō, fabrica, fictiō; also cōnfictiō, commentīcius, mōnstrō. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.