facio

• Pontifex may come from the Latin words for bridge [pons] (or an Etruscan word for road) +maker [from facio]. —  About.com Ancient / Classical History
• Nam cum idem rex hominem interrogaret, quid ei uideretur, ut mare haberet infestum, ille libera contumacia: Quod tibi, inquit, ut orbem terrarum; sed quia id ego exiguo nauigio facio, latro uocor; quia tu magna classe, imperator. —  Harper's Magazine
• The forms of facere are indeed facio, feci, factum, facere, and the forms of fictum, and fingere, but the Latin etymon of artifice does not contain the root fic -: this Paul Collier Pens NYTimes Op-Ed - "If the U.N., whose General Assembly convenes today, really rises to this challenge, how can it help the countries in the bottom billion?" —  OUPblog
• Yet long the road, and very frail are we That may not lightly curb mortality Nor lightly tread together silently Et carmen unum facio: Mater, ora filium Ut post hoc exilium Nobis donet gaudium Beatorum omnium! —  Chivalry
• But in the first passage faciat would have an ambiguous meaning, since it could represent either quid facio or quid faciam_, and in the second abierim_, with its short 'a', 'i', and 'e', would be metrically intractable It is difficult to say whether the scribes were more prone to influence by the subjunctive normal in classical Latin prose, or by the indicative of the Romance languages and of ecclesiastical Latin. —  The Last Poems of Ovid

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