facetus

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• IPA^(key): [faˈt͡setus]
• Rhymes: -etus
• Hyphenation: fa‧ce‧tus

facetus

1. conditional of faceti

From Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰweh₂k- (“to shine”). Cognate with fax, Lithuanian žvakė (“candle”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /faˈkeː.tus/, [fäˈkeːt̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /faˈt͡ʃe.tus/, [fäˈt͡ʃɛːt̪us]

facētus (feminine facēta, neuter facētum, comparative facētior, superlative facētissimus); first/second-declension adjective

1. elegant, fine
2. courteous, polite
3. witty, jocose, facetious

First/second-declension adjective.

• facētē
• facētia
• facētior

• English: facetious
• French: facétieux
• Italian: faceto
• Portuguese: faceto
• Sicilian: facitu
• Spanish: faceto
• Polish: facet

• “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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• facetus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (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
    
• Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 495