facete

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English

Etymology

Ultimately from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin facētus; perhaps via (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Italian faceto.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

facete (comparative more facete, superlative most facete)

  1. (archaic) Facetious.
    • 1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy, […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and Iames Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition I, section 2, member 4, subsection 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 f pl

  1. (deprecated template usage) Feminine plural of adjective faceto.

Latin

Adjective

(deprecated template usage) 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

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