fàbrica

Fábrica is a word in Spanish and Portuguese that denotes a factory or manufacturing plant. In Portuguese it is fábrica, and in Spanish it is fábrica. The term comes from Latin fabrica, meaning workshop or craft, and is cognate with French fabrique and Italian fabbrica. In everyday use, fábricas are places where goods are manufactured, assembled, or repaired, and the word appears in business names and signage as well as in phrases such as fábrica de ideas.

Beyond its generic sense, fábricas or La Fábrica are used as toponyms in Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking regions. Numerous villages, districts, or neighborhoods carry the name, reflecting historical factory or mill sites and indicating their origin in an industrial or productive landscape.

In culture, the word is commonly used in titles and expressions to evoke industrial settings, labor, or production. It also appears in literature and media as a motif or descriptor.

See also: Factory, Industrial heritage, List of places named La Fábrica.