faculty Copy link Outline I. Power to act1. făcultas2. vis, vim, vi, f. (special force or virtue)II. In pl., the f.s of the mindIII. University t. t. • faculty: I. Power to act: 1. făcultas: the f. of speaking, f. dicendi, Cic.: virtues which have their seat in a certain f. of the soul, virtutes quae in ingenii quadam facultate sunt, Cic. 2. vis, vim, vi, f. (special force or virtue): the special f. of the orator, oratoris vis propria, Cic.: v. function. II. In pl., the f.s of the mind: vires ingenii, or simply ingenium, mens: v. mind. III. University t. t.: *ordo, ĭnis, m.: (Kr.): the f. of physicians, *ordo medicorum, medicinae professorum. (Facultas is without analogy in class. Lat.)
FACULTY Copy link • FACULTYTalent, ability, etc., ingenium (innate quality or power of mind, talent, genius; especially the power of perpetually forming new ideas; inventive faculty): sollertia (skill, talent in the working out of ideas): docilitas (aptness to learn, cleverness): ingenii facultas (a single power of the mind, Vid: Cic., De Or., 2, 80, 433; hence never of the mental faculties together, for which the Latins said simply ingenium): facultas, with genitive (power and skill for anything; e.g., for speaking, dicendi: in plur., also absolutely, facultates, faculties, Cic., De Invent., 1, 27, extr.). The vital faculty, vis vitalis (the vital principle in nature): animus: anima (the vital principle in man, τὸ ἐπιθυμητικόν): venae (the veins, as the seat of the vital principle; Vid: Heindorf ad Hor., Sat., 2, 3, 153). If the soul were nothing more or greater than the vital faculty, si nihil esset in animo, nisi ut per eum viveremus. Faculty in the universities, ordo: the theological faculty, *venerandus theologorum ordo: the faculty of law, *illustris jurisconsultorum ordo.