facial

English

Etymology

Early 17th century, borrowed from Medieval Latin faciālis (“face-to-face, direct, open”), from faciēs (“form, configuration, figure; face, visage, countenance”) +‎ -ālis (“-al”, adjectival suffix).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfeɪ.ʃəl/

  • Audio (AU)

    (file)

• Rhymes: -eɪʃəl

Adjective

facial (not comparable)

1. (relational) Of or affecting the face.
2. (medicine, relational) Concerned with or used in improving the appearance of the face.
3. (transferred sense, law) (of a law or regulation validity) On its face; as it appears (as opposed to on a more probing analysis, as it is applied, etc.).

   The facial constitutionality of the law is in question.

Coordinate terms

• (dentistry location adjectives) anterior,‎ apical,‎ apicocoronal,‎ axial,‎ buccal,‎ buccoapical,‎ buccocervical,‎ buccogingival,‎ buccolabial,‎ buccolingual,‎ bucco-occlusal,‎ buccopalatal,‎ cervical,‎ coronal,‎ coronoapical,‎ distal,‎ distoapical,‎ distobuccal,‎ distocervical,‎ distocoronal,‎ distofacial,‎ distogingival,‎ distoincisal,‎ distolingual,‎ disto-occlusal,‎ distoclusal,‎ distocclusal,‎ distopalatal,‎ facial,‎ gingival,‎ incisal,‎ incisocervical,‎ inferior,‎ labial,‎ lingual,‎ linguobuccal,‎ linguo-occlusal,‎ mandibular,‎ maxillary,‎ mesial,‎ mesioapical,‎ mesiobuccal,‎ mesiocervical,‎ mesiocoronal,‎ mesiodistal,‎ mesiofacial,‎ mesioincisal,‎ mesiogingival,‎ mesiolingual,‎ mesio-occlusal,‎ mesioclusal,‎ mesiocclusal,‎ mesiopalatal,‎ occlusal,‎ palatal,‎ posterior,‎ proximal,‎ superior,‎ vestibular ^{(Category: en:Dentistry)}

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

English Wikipedia has an article on:

facial (disambiguation)

Wikipedia

facial (plural facials)

1. (medicine) A personal care beauty treatment which involves cleansing and moisturizing of the human face.
2. (film) A kind of early silent film focusing on the facial expressions of the actor.
   • 2004, Simon Popple, Joe Kember, Early Cinema: From Factory Gate to Dream Factory, page 92:

     But in facials, moving picture technology also enabled an exaggeration of this performance tradition, bringing a new emphasis to the details […]

3. (slang, sports) (in some contact sports) A foul play which involves one player hitting another's face.
4. (slang, pornography, sex) A sex act of male ejaculation onto another person's face.

   Synonym: money shot

   Coordinate term: self-facial

   Chuck gave his co-star a creamy facial.

Derived terms

• vampire facial

Translations

References

• “facial”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “facial”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

Anagrams

• cafila

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin faciālis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic)
• IPA^(key): (Valencian)

Adjective

facial m or f (masculine and feminine plural facials)

1. facial

   músculs facials

   facial muscles

Further reading

• “facial” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Chinese

Etymology

From English facial.

Pronunciation

Noun

facial

1. (Hong Kong Cantonese) facial; personal care beauty treatment which involves cleansing and moisturizing of the human face

   做facial [Cantonese]  ―  zou⁶ fei¹ sou⁴   ―  to have a facial treatment

References

• English Loanwords in Hong Kong Cantonese

French

Etymology

From Latin faciālis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fa.sjal/

• Audio

  (file)

Adjective

facial (feminine faciale, masculine plural faciaux, feminine plural faciales)

1. facial

Derived terms

• valeur faciale

Further reading

• “facial”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin faciālis.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -al, -aw
• Hyphenation: fa‧ci‧al

Adjective

facial m or f (plural faciais)

1. facial (of the face)

Derived terms

• facialmente

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French facial.

Adjective

facial m or n (feminine singular facială, masculine plural faciali, feminine and neuter plural faciale)

1. facial

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin faciālis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /faˈθjal/
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /faˈsjal/
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: fa‧cial

Adjective

facial m or f (masculine and feminine plural faciales)

1. facial

Derived terms

Related terms

Further reading

• “facial”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014