facies

See also: facíes and faciès

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfeɪʃiz/, /ˈfeɪʃiˌiːz/

Noun

facies (countable and uncountable, plural facies)

1. (plural only) Appearance.
   • 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page 6:

     The Chilean Amphijubula Schust. (Schuster, 1970a) which has the facies of a small Frullania and agrees with Frullania in leaf insertion and branching, has a nontiered seta with 16 epidermal cell rows surrounding 4 inner rows.

2. (plural only, medicine) Facial features, like an expression or complexion, typical for patients having certain diseases or conditions.

   costive facies

3. (geology) A body of rock with specified characteristics reflecting the way it was formed.

Derived terms

• biofacies
• lithofacies
• masked facies
• taphofacies

Anagrams

• Scaife

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Latin

Etymology

• Some refer it to Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- (“to do”) (faciēs may be to faciō as speciēs is to speciō);
• others class it with facētus, fax.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈfa.ki.eːs/, [ˈfäkieːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈfa.t͡ʃi.es/, [ˈfäːt͡ʃies]

Noun

faciēs f (genitive faciēī); fifth declension

1. shape, figure
2. face, countenance, visage
   • 405 CE, Jerome, Vulgate Genesis.1.2:

     terra autem erat inanis et vacua et tenebrae super faciem abyssi et spiritus Dei ferebatur super aquas

     And the earth was void and empty, and darkness was upon the face of the deep; and the spirit of God moved over the waters.

3. (figuratively) external form, look, condition, appearance
4. (figuratively) sight aspect

Declension

Fifth-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	faciēs	faciēs
Genitive	faciēī	faciērum
Dative	faciēī	faciēbus
Accusative	faciem	faciēs
Ablative	faciē	faciēbus
Vocative	faciēs	faciēs

Old Genitive: faciēs

Gellius: vocabulum facies hoc modo declinatur: "haec facies, huius facies", quod nunc propter rationem grammaticam "faciei" dicitur

Derived terms

• bonifaciēs
• superficiēs

Descendants

• Extremaduran: hazi
• Mozarabic: فاجِّ (fáče)
• Old Occitan:
  • Catalan: faç
  • Occitan: fàcia
• Old Galician-Portuguese: façe, faz
  • Galician: face
  • Portuguese: face
• Old Spanish:
  • Spanish: faz, haz
• Romagnol: fàza
• Sicilian: facci
• Vulgar Latin: *facia (see there for further descendants)
• → Albanian: faqe
• → French: faciès
• → Portuguese: fácies

Verb

(deprecated template usage) faciēs

1. second-person singular future active indicative of faciō

References

• “facies”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “facies”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• facies 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)
• facies in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.