fecerunt

Fecerunt is a Latin verb form meaning they did or they made. It is the third-person plural perfect active indicative of facere, one of the primary verbs in Latin. The perfect tense signals a completed action in the past. The form fecerunt is built from the perfect stem fec- plus the third-person plural ending -erunt, and is regularly found in Classical Latin and later Latin texts.

In use, fecerunt describes actions completed by a plural subject. It can take direct objects or other complements, depending on context. For example: Romani arma fecerunt (The Romans made weapons). In broader narratives, it can convey events or achievements attributed to groups, councils, peoples, or agents. The exact nuance depends on surrounding material, but it typically simply indicates a past, completed act.

The verb facere has multiple forms across tenses, voices, moods, and persons. Fecerunt corresponds to the perfect indicative; other related forms include feci (I did), fecit (he/she/it did), facio (I do), and fecisse (to have done, in other constructions). It appears frequently in Classical authors such as Caesar, Cicero, and Livy, as well as medieval Latin. Latin grammars commonly present fecerunt as an example of the -erunt ending in the perfect plural. See also fecit, facere, and the wider perfect tense system of Latin.