English▸ noun
(plural factotums)
an employee who does all kinds of work: he was employed as the general factotum.
– 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).