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facete

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English

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Etymology

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Ultimately from Latin facētus; perhaps via Italian faceto.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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facete (comparative more facete, superlative most facete)

  1. (archaic) Facetious.
    • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: [], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: [] 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 […].

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Italian

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Adjective

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facete f pl

  1. feminine plural of faceto

Latin

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Adverb

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facētē (comparative facētius, superlative facētissimē)

  1. in a funny way, wittily
    • 70 BCE, Cicero, In Verrem 2.4.95:
      Numquam tam male est Siculīs quīn aliquid facētē [] dīcant.
      It is never so bad for the Sicilians that they wouldn't say something funny
  2. in a nice way, nice, elegantly

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Adjective

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facēte

  1. vocative masculine singular of facētus

References

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  • 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

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Verb

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facete

  1. inflection of facetar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Spanish

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Verb

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facete

  1. second-person singular voseo imperative of facer combined with te