facete
English edit
Etymology edit
Ultimately from Latin facētus; perhaps via Italian faceto.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
facete (comparative more facete, superlative most facete)
- (archaic) Facetious.
- 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, 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 […].
Derived terms edit
Italian edit
Adjective edit
facete f pl
Latin edit
Adverb edit
facētē (comparative facētius, superlative facētissimē)
Derived terms edit
Adjective edit
facēte
References edit
- “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 edit
Verb edit
facete
- inflection of facetar:
Spanish edit
Verb edit
facete
- second-person singular voseo imperative of facer combined with te