facial
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
Early 17th century, borrowed from Medieval Latin faciālis (“face-to-face, direct, open”), from faciēs (“form, configuration, figure; face, visage, countenance”) + -ālis (“-al”, adjectival suffix).
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
facial (not comparable)
- (relational) Of or affecting the face.
- (medicine, relational) Concerned with or used in improving the appearance of the face.
- (transferred sense, law) (of a law or regulation validity) On its face; as it appears (as opposed to, as it is applied).
- The facial constitutionality of the law is in question.
Coordinate termsEdit
- (dentistry location adjectives) anterior, apical, apicocoronal, axial, buccal, buccoapical, buccocervical, buccogingival, buccolabial, buccolingual, bucco-occlusal, buccopalatal, cervical, coronal, coronoapical, distal, distoapical, distobuccal, distocervical, distocoronal, distofacial, distogingival, distoincisal, distolingual, disto-occlusal, distoclusal, distocclusal, distopalatal, facial, gingival, incisal, incisocervical, inferior, labial, lingual, linguobuccal, linguo-occlusal, mandibular, maxillary, mesial, mesioapical, mesiobuccal, mesiocervical, mesiocoronal, mesiodistal, mesiofacial, mesioincisal, mesiogingival, mesiolingual, mesio-occlusal, mesioclusal, mesiocclusal, mesiopalatal, occlusal, palatal, posterior, proximal, superior, vestibular (Category: en:Dentistry) [edit]
Derived termsEdit
- acousticofacial
- acrofacial
- basifacial
- bifacial
- brachyfacial
- buccofacial
- cardiofacial
- centrofacial
- cephalofacial
- cervicofacial
- cofacial
- craniofacial
- craniomaxillofacial
- cytofacial
- dentofacial
- devil facial tumor disease
- distofacial
- dolichofacial
- enantiofacial
- encephalofacial
- endofacial
- epifacial
- equifacial
- exofacial
- extrafacial
- facial angle
- facial artery
- facial composite
- facial cream
- facial expression
- facial feature
- facial hair
- facial mask
- facial nerve
- facial profiling
- facial yoga
- facialist
- faciality
- facialize
- facially
- facialness
- facio-
- gustofacial
- hemifacial
- hemimaxillofacial
- heterofacial
- interfacial
- intrafacial
- labiofacial
- linguofacial
- mandibulofacial
- maxillofacial
- mesiofacial
- mesofacial
- microfacial
- midfacial
- minifacial
- multifacial
- musculofacial
- nasofacial
- nonfacial
- oculofacial
- oculomandibulofacial
- odontofacial
- orofacial
- oromaxillofacial
- orthofacial
- panfacial
- parafacial
- perifacial
- prefacial
- retrofacial
- rhinofacial
- subfacial
- suprafacial
- temporofacial
- transfacial
- transverse facial artery
- trifacial
- trigeminofacial
- unifacial
- urofacial
- vajacial
- velocardiofacial
- zygomaticofacial
TranslationsEdit
of the face
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NounEdit
facial (plural facials)
- (medicine) A personal care beauty treatment which involves cleansing and moisturizing of the human face.
- (film) A kind of early silent film focusing on the facial expressions of the actor.
- 2004, Simon Popple; Joe Kember, Early Cinema: From Factory Gate to Dream Factory, page 92:
- But in facials, moving picture technology also enabled an exaggeration of this performance tradition, bringing a new emphasis to the details […]
- (slang, sports) (in some contact sports) A foul play which involves one player hitting another in the face.
- (slang, pornography, sex) A sex act of male ejaculation onto another person's face.
- Chuck gave his co-star a creamy facial.
Derived termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
beauty treatment
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sex act
ReferencesEdit
- “facial”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- “facial”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
AnagramsEdit
CatalanEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
facial (masculine and feminine plural facials)
- facial
- músculs facials
- facial muscles
Further readingEdit
- “facial” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
ChineseEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
facial
- (Hong Kong Cantonese) facial; personal care beauty treatment which involves cleansing and moisturizing of the human face
ReferencesEdit
FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
facial (feminine faciale, masculine plural faciaux, feminine plural faciales)
Derived termsEdit
Further readingEdit
- “facial”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
PortugueseEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
facial m or f (plural faciais)
- facial (of the face)
Derived termsEdit
RomanianEdit
EtymologyEdit
AdjectiveEdit
facial m or n (feminine singular facială, masculine plural faciali, feminine and neuter plural faciale)
DeclensionEdit
Declension of facial
| singular | plural | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | ||
| nominative/ accusative |
indefinite | facial | facială | faciali | faciale | ||
| definite | facialul | faciala | facialii | facialele | |||
| genitive/ dative |
indefinite | facial | faciale | faciali | faciale | ||
| definite | facialului | facialei | facialilor | facialelor | |||
SpanishEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
- IPA(key): (Spain) /faˈθjal/ [faˈθjal]
- IPA(key): (Latin America) /faˈsjal/ [faˈsjal]
- Rhymes: -al
- Syllabification: fa‧cial
AdjectiveEdit
facial (plural faciales)
Derived termsEdit
Related termsEdit
Further readingEdit
- “facial”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014