facetia

Latin

Etymology

From facētus (“witty”) +‎ -ia.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /faˈkeː.ti.a/, [fäˈkeːt̪iä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /faˈt͡ʃet.t͡si.a/, [fäˈt͡ʃɛt̪ː͡s̪iä]

Noun

facētia f (genitive facētiae); first declension

1. (usually in the plural) jest, wit, humour

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	facētia	facētiae
genitive	facētiae	facētiārum
dative	facētiae	facētiīs
accusative	facētiam	facētiās
ablative	facētiā	facētiīs
vocative	facētia	facētiae

Related terms

• facētē
• facētior
• facētus

Descendants

• French: facétie
• Italian: facezia
• Portuguese: facécia
• Romanian: faceție
• Sicilian: facizza, facìzzia
• Spanish: facecia

References

• “facetia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "facetia", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• facetia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to make witty remarks: facetiis uti, facetum esse
    
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “facetious”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.