facci

Italian

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈfat.t͡ʃi/
  • Rhymes: -attʃi
  • Hyphenation: fàc‧ci

Verb

facci

  1. compound of fa', the second-person singular (tu) imperative form of fare, with ci

Anagrams

Sicilian
na facci

Etymology

From Latin faciēs. Whatever the reason for the /t͡tʃ/ in this word (cf. the regular azzaru < aciārium), it is in fact universal across southern Italy.[1] That, along with the apparent absence—at least in the 1920's—of a Sicilian variant with final /-a/ (again per the AIS), makes a borrowing from Italian faccia unlikely.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈfatt͡ʃi/
  • Hyphenation: fàc‧ci

Noun

facci f (plural facci)

  1. face

Derived terms
  • affacciari
  • affacciatu
  • facciata
  • facciola
  • facciolu
  • facc' 'i buttana
  • facc' 'i minchia
  • senza facci

See also

References
  1. AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 665: “lavarsi la faccia” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
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