English

Adjective

facete ‎(comparative more facete, superlative most facete)

1. (archaic) Facetious.
   • 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, I.2.4.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

• facetely
• faceteness

Italian

Adjective

facete

1. feminine plural of faceto

Latin

Adjective

facēte

1. vocative masculine singular of facētus

References

• 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
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “facete”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.

Portuguese

Verb

facete

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of facetar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of facetar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of facetar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of facetar