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facetus
facetus
Latin
Etymology
Some connect this along with faciēs, fax, focus, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂- (“to shine”). Cognate with Ancient Greek φαίνω (phaínō, “to shine”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /faˈkeː.tus/, [faˈkeː.tʊs]
Adjective
facētus m (feminine facēta, neuter facētum); first/second declension
Inflection
First/second declension.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| nominative | facētus | facēta | facētum | facētī | facētae | facēta | |
| genitive | facētī | facētae | facētī | facētōrum | facētārum | facētōrum | |
| dative | facētō | facētō | facētīs | ||||
| accusative | facētum | facētam | facētum | facētōs | facētās | facēta | |
| ablative | facētō | facētā | facētō | facētīs | |||
| vocative | facēte | facēta | facētum | facētī | facētae | facēta | |
- comparative: facētior, superlative: facētissimus
Related terms
Descendants
- French: facétieux, facétieuse
- Portuguese: faceto
References
- facetus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- facetus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- FACETUS in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “facetus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
- Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to be witty: facete dicere
- to make witty remarks: facetiis uti, facetum esse
- to indulge in apt witticisms: facete et commode dicere
- a witticism, bon mot: facete dictum
- to be witty: facete dicere