facete
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)
- (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
- (deprecated template usage) Feminine plural of adjective faceto.
Latin
Adjective
(deprecated template usage) facēte
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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