Today's Word "factotum"
Published in Vocabulary
factotum \fak-TOH-tuhm\ (noun) - A person employed to do all kinds of work or business.
"Come back tomorrow and I'll give you an appointment, the factotum would say. Of course the arkhon kept everyone waiting, or his factotum did." -- Sarah Micklem, 'Wildfire'
Factotum is from Medieval Latin, from Latin fac totum, "do everything," from facere, "to do" + totus, "all."
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