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   factotum

   /fakˈtəʊtəm/

   noun

   • 1. an employee who does all kinds of work: "he was employed as the general factotum"

   Word Origin mid 16th century (originally in the phrases dominum (or magister factotum), translating roughly as ‘master of everything’, and Johannes factotem ‘John do-it-all’ or ‘Jack of all trades’): from medieval Latin, from Latin fac! ‘do!’ (imperative of facere) + totum ‘the whole thing’ (neuter of totus).

   Scrabble Points: 15

   • F

     4

   • A

     1

   • C

     3

   • T

     1

   • O

     1

   • T

     1

   • U

     1

   • M

     3

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