agent (male or of unspecified gender) (intermediary for certain services, such as for artistic performances or public relations) · agent, spy (male or of unspecified gender) (person working for a secret service)
köken: Learned borrowing from Latin factor (“a doer, maker, performer”), from factus (“done or made”), perfect passive participle of faciō (“do, make”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- (“to put, place, set”). Doublet of feitor. Piecewise doublet of fazedor.
factor (one of the elements, circumstances, or influences which contribute to produce a result) · factor (group of people affecting something) · factor (any of various objects multiplied together to form some whole)
representative · spokesman, spokeswoman, spokesperson (one who speaks as the voice of a group of people) · deputy, delegate, proxy, substitute, surrogate
çekim: çoğul edustajat · tamlayan edustajan
köken: edustaa (“to represent”) + -ja (“-er”). First attested in Frans Ferdinand Ahlman: Ruotsalais-suomalainen sanakirja ("Swedish-Finnish Dictionary", 1865).
factor; cause. · way or path (which leads to a certain result); means or method (by which a certain result is achieved). · component; element.
köken: From Pali paccaya (“cause; suffix; etc”); possibly via Old Khmer pracai, pracaiya (“(1) source of livelihood; (2) monetary support; (3) requisites for monastic life, that is, clothing, food, shelter, medicine; etc”). Cognate with Modern Khmer បច្ច័យ (paccay). Compare Sanskrit प्रत्यय (pratyaya), from which Thai ปัตยัย is derived.