facetus

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Pronunciation

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• IPA^(key): /faˈt͡setus/

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• Rhymes: -etus
• Hyphenation: fa‧ce‧tus

Verb

facetus

1. conditional of faceti

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰweh₂k- (“to shine”). Cognate with fax, Lithuanian žvakė (“candle”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [faˈkeː.tʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [faˈt͡ʃɛː.tus]

Adjective

facētus (feminine facēta, neuter facētum, comparative facētior, superlative facētissimus); first/second-declension adjective

1. elegant, fine
2. courteous, polite
3. witty, jocose, facetious

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	facētus	facēta	facētum		facētī	facētae	facēta
genitive	facētī	facētae	facētī		facētōrum	facētārum	facētōrum
dative	facētō	facētae	facētō		facētīs
accusative	facētum	facētam	facētum		facētōs	facētās	facēta
ablative	facētō	facētā	facētō		facētīs
vocative	facēte	facēta	facētum		facētī	facētae	facēta

Related terms

• facētē
• facētia
• facētior

Descendants

• English: facetious
• French: facétieux
• Italian: faceto
• Portuguese: faceto
• Sicilian: facitu
• Spanish: faceto
• Polish: facet
• ⇒ Translingual: Facetotecta

References

• “facetus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “facetus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "facetus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “facetus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to be witty: facete dicere
    
  • to make witty remarks: facetiis uti, facetum esse
    
  • to indulge in apt witticisms: facete et commode dicere
    
  • a witticism, bon mot: facete dictum
    
• Pokorny, Julius (1959), Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 495