faction

Multiple Entries:
  faction    -faction  

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
faction1

▶noun a small dissenting group within a larger one.

– derivatives
factional adjective,
factionalism noun,
factionally adverb.

– origin C15 (denoting the action of doing or making): via Fr. from L. factio(n-), from facere ‘do, make’.

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
faction2

▶noun a literary and cinematic genre in which real events are used as a basis for a fictional narrative or dramatization.

– origin 1960s: blend of fact and fiction.

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
-faction/ˈfakʃ(ə)n/

▶combining form in nouns of action derived from verbs ending in -fy (such as liquefaction from liquefy).

– origin from L. factio(n)-, from facere ‘do, make’.