Fakultät

German

Alternative forms

Facultät (obsolete)

Etymology

From Latin facultas (“power, capability”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /fakʊlˈtɛːt/ (standard; used naturally in western Germany and Switzerland)
IPA^(key): /-ˈteːt/ (overall more common; particularly northern and eastern regions)
Hyphenation: Fa‧kul‧tät
Audio (file)

Noun

Fakultät f (genitive Fakultät, plural Fakultäten)

(mathematics) factorial
(university) faculty, school (department within a college)
Ich habe Kurse an der Fakultät für Wirtschaftswissenschaften der Universität Wien belegt. ― I took courses at Vienna University's School of Economics.

Declension

Declension of Fakultät [feminine]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	eine	die	Fakultät	die	Fakultäten
genitive	einer	der	Fakultät	der	Fakultäten
dative	einer	der	Fakultät	den	Fakultäten
accusative	eine	die	Fakultät	die	Fakultäten

Derived terms

medizinische Fakultät (“medical school”) (technical term)

Descendants

→ Polish: fakultet
→ Russian: факульте́т (fakulʹtét) (see there for further descendants)
→ Serbo-Croatian: fakultet, факултет

Further reading

“Fakultät” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
“Fakultät” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
“Fakultät” in Duden online
Fakultät on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de

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