Meaning

noun a piece of information about circumstances that exist or events that have occurred

noun a statement or assertion of verified information about something that is the case or has happened

noun an event known to have happened or something known to have existed

originFrom Old French fact, from Latin factum (“an act, deed, feat, etc.”); also Medieval Latin for “state, condition, circumstance”; neuter of factus (“done or made”), perfect passive participle of faciō (“do, make”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- (“to put, place, set”). Old/Middle French later evolved it into faict and fait. Doublet of feat.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0