facete
English
Etymology
Ultimately from Latin facētus; perhaps via Italian faceto.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /fəˈsiːt/
Adjective
facete (comparative more facete, superlative most facete)
- (archaic) Facetious.
- 1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy, Oxford: Printed by Iohn Lichfield and Iames Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 216894069; The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd corrected and augmented edition, Oxford: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, 1624, OCLC 54573970, partition I, section 2, member 4, subsection iv:
- Adrian the sixth pope […] gave command that statue should be demolished and burned, the ashes flung into the River Tiber, and had done it forthwith, had not Lodovicus Suessanus, a facete companion, dissuaded him to the contrary […].
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Derived terms
- facetely
- faceteness
Italian
Adjective
facete f pl
- Feminine plural of adjective faceto.
Latin
Adjective
facēte
- vocative masculine singular of facētus
References
- facete in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- facete in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- facete in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
Portuguese
Verb
facete
- first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of facetar
- third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of facetar
- third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of facetar
- third-person singular (você) negative imperative of facetar