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Latin
Etymology
From facētus (“witty”) + -ia.
Pronunciation
Noun
facētia f (genitive facētiae); first declension
- (usually in the plural) jest, wit, humour
Declension
First-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “facetia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- facetia 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)
- facetia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to make witty remarks: facetiis uti, facetum esse
- “facetious”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.