facete

English

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin facētus; perhaps via Italian faceto.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /fəˈsiːt/

Adjective

facete (comparative more facete, superlative most facete)

  1. (archaic) Facetious.
    • 1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy, Oxford: Printed by Iohn Lichfield and Iames Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 216894069; The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd corrected and augmented edition, Oxford: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, 1624, OCLC 54573970, (please specify |partition=1, 2, or 3):
      , 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

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
  • facete in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, 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
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