facies
English
Pronunciation
Noun
facies (countable and uncountable, plural facies)
- (plural only) Appearance.
- 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →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.
- (plural only, medicine) Facial features, like an expression or complexion, typical for patients having certain diseases or conditions.
- costive facies
- (geology) A body of rock with specified characteristics reflecting the way it was formed.
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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
- shape, figure
- face, countenance, visage
- (figuratively) external form, look, condition, appearance
- (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
Descendants
- Extremaduran: hazi
- Mozarabic: فاجِّ (fáče)
- Old Occitan:
- Old Galician-Portuguese: façe, faz
- Old Spanish:
- Romagnol: fàza
- Sicilian: facci
- Vulgar Latin: *facia (see there for further descendants)
- → Albanian: faqe
- → French: faciès
- → Portuguese: fácies
Verb
(deprecated template usage) faciēs
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.
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