facial

English

Etymology

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).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfeɪ.ʃəl/

• Audio (General Australian):

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃəl

Adjective

facial (not comparable)

1. (relational) Of or affecting the face.
2. (medicine, relational) Concerned with or used in improving the appearance of the face.
3. (transferred sense, law) (of a law or regulation validity) On its face; as it appears (as opposed to on a more probing analysis, as it is applied, etc.).

   The facial constitutionality of the law is in question.

Coordinate terms

• (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 terms

• 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 discrimination
• facial expression
• facial feature
• facial hair
• facialist
• faciality
• facialize
• facially
• facial mask
• facial nerve
• facialness
• facial profiling
• facial soap
• facial tissue
• facial yoga
• 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

 

Translations

of the face

• Afrikaans: gesigs-
• Bulgarian: лицев (bg) (licev)
• Catalan: facial (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 面 (zh) (miàn), 顏面的／颜面的 (zh) (yánmiàn de)

• Czech: obličejový (cs)
• Esperanto: vizaĝa
• Finnish: kasvo-
• French: facial (fr)
• Galician: facial
• German: Gesichts- (de)
• Italian: facciale (it)
• Kyrgyz: тышы (ky) (tışı), өңү (ky) (öŋü), алды (ky) (aldı)
• Marathi: चेहर्‍यासंबंधी (cehar‍yāsambandhī)
• Portuguese: facial (pt)
• Russian: лицево́й (ru) (licevój)
• Spanish: facial (es)
• Swedish: ansikts-
• Telugu: ముఖ (mukha)

Noun

facial (plural facials)

1. (medicine) A personal care beauty treatment which involves cleansing and moisturizing of the human face.
2. (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 […]

3. (slang, sports) (in some contact sports) A foul play which involves one player hitting another's face.
4. (slang, pornography, sex) A sex act of male ejaculation onto another person's face.

   Synonym: money shot

   Coordinate term: self-facial

   Chuck gave his co-star a creamy facial.

Derived terms

• vampire facial

Translations

beauty treatment

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: facial (fei¹ sou⁴)

• Finnish: kasvohoito (fi)
• Marathi: फेशियल n (pheśiyal)
• Polish: maseczka (pl) f
• Swedish: ansiktsbehandling (sv) c

sex act

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 顏射／颜射 (zh) (yánshè)

• French: faciale (fr) f
• Galician: facial m
• Japanese: 顔射 (がんしゃ, gansha)
• Marathi: फेशियल n (pheśiyal)

References

• “facial”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “facial”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

Anagrams

• cafila

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin faciālis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [fə.siˈal]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [fa.siˈal]

Adjective

facial m or f (masculine and feminine plural facials)

1. facial

   músculs facials

   facial muscles

Further reading

• “facial” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Chinese

Etymology

From English facial.

Pronunciation

• Cantonese (Jyutping): fei¹ sou⁴

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: fei¹ sou⁴
    • Yale: fēi sòuh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: fei¹ sou⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: féi¹ sou⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fei̯⁵⁵ sou̯²¹/

Noun

facial

1. (Hong Kong Cantonese) facial; personal care beauty treatment which involves cleansing and moisturizing of the human face

   做facial [Cantonese]  ―  zou⁶ fei¹ sou⁴ [Jyutping]  ―  to have a facial treatment

References

• English Loanwords in Hong Kong Cantonese

French

Etymology

From Latin faciālis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fa.sjal/

• Audio:

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Adjective

facial (feminine faciale, masculine plural faciaux, feminine plural faciales)

1. facial

Derived terms

• valeur faciale

Further reading

• “facial”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin faciālis.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /fa.siˈaw/ [fa.sɪˈaʊ̯], (faster pronunciation) /faˈsjaw/ [faˈsjaʊ̯]

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /fɐˈsjal/ [fɐˈsjaɫ]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /fɐˈsjal/ [fɐˈsjaɫ]
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /fɐˈsja.li/

• Rhymes: (Portugal) -al, (Brazil) -aw
• Hyphenation: fa‧ci‧al

Adjective

facial m or f (plural faciais)

1. facial (of the face)

Derived terms

• basifacial
• bifacial
• braquifacial
• craniofacial
• craniomaxilofacial
• creme facial
• equifacial
• expressão facial
• facialmente
• harmonização facial
• maxilofacial
• orofacial
• temporofacial
• unifacial

 

Further reading

• “facial”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2024
• “facial”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French facial.

Adjective

facial m or n (feminine singular facială, masculine plural faciali, feminine and neuter plural faciale)

1. facial

Declension

		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

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin faciālis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /faˈθjal/ [faˈθjal]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /faˈsjal/ [faˈsjal]
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: fa‧cial

Adjective

facial m or f (masculine and feminine plural faciales)

1. facial

Derived terms

• facialmente
• valor facial

 

Related terms

• acera
• faz
• superficie

 

Further reading

• “facial”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28