facete

English

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin facētus; perhaps via Italian faceto.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /fəˈsiːt/

Adjective

facete (comparative more facete, superlative most facete)

1. (archaic) Facetious.
   • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James 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

• facetely
• faceteness

Italian

Adjective

facete f pl

1. feminine plural of faceto

Latin

Adverb

facētē (comparative facētius, superlative facētissimē)

1. in a funny way, wittily
   • 70 BCE, Cicero, In Verrem 2.4.95:

     Numquam tam male est Siculīs quīn aliquid facētē […] dīcant.

     It is never so bad for the Sicilians that they wouldn't say something funny

2. in a nice way, nice, elegantly

Derived terms

• perfacētē

Adjective

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

1. inflection of facetar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Spanish

Verb

facete

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of facer combined with te