Etymograph

English

factfinder

From fact + finder.

A compound of fact + finder

Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- ‘to put’

Latin faciō ‘do’

Latin factus ‘done or made’

Latin factum ‘an act’

Old French fact

English fact

Middle English findere

English finder

Today it means

noun In a legal proceeding, the person or persons given the task of weighing all evidence presented and determining the facts of the case in light of that evidence; the jury, or where there is no jury, the judge.

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