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See also: facíes and faciès

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Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin faciēs (“form, configuration, figure; face, visage, countenance”). Doublet of face.

Pronunciation

Noun

facies (countable and uncountable, plural facies)

  1. General appearance.
    • 1992, Rudolf M 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.
  2. (medicine) Facial features, like an expression or complexion, typical for patients having certain diseases or conditions.
    Hyponyms: masked facies, moon facies
    costive facies
  3. (geology) A body of rock with specified characteristics reflecting its formation, composition, age, and fossil content.
    Hyponyms: biofacies, lithofacies, microfacies, ichnofacies, taphofacies
Derived terms

References

Etymology 2

From facie +‎ -s.

Noun

facies

  1. plural of facie

Anagrams

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

    From Proto-Italic *fakjēs of disputed origin. It may be from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- (“to do, set, put, impose, place”);[1] faciēs may be to faciō as speciēs is to speciō, and may literally mean "imposed form".[2] However, others class it with facētus and fax.

    Pronunciation

    Noun

    faciēs f (genitive faciēī); fifth declension

    1. (in general) make, form, shape, figure, configuration
      Synonyms: speciēs, frōns, fōrma, habitus
      • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 12.891:
        verte omnes tete in facies
        resort to every expedient
        (literally, “change yourself in every shape”)
    2. (usually Classical Latin) (in particular) face, countenance, visage
    3. (figuratively, Classical Latin) external form, look, condition, appearance
      in faciem + (genitive) ― like, in the guise of
      1. (in particular) external appearance as opposed to reality; pretence, pretext
      2. (transferred sense, poetic) look, sight, aspect
      Synonym: speciēs
    4. beauty, loveliness
      Synonyms: pulchritūdō, decus, decor
      Antonyms: dēdecus, dehonestāmentum

    Inflection

    Fifth-declension noun.

    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

    • Italo-Romance:
      • Sicilian: facci
    • Insular Romance:
      • Sardinian: fache, facci (Campidanese, still meaning "face")
    • Gallo-Romance:
    • Ibero-Romance
    • Borrowings:

    Reflexes of the late variant facia:

    Verb

    faciēs

    1. second-person singular future active indicative of faciō

    References

    1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “faciō”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 198
    2. ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “face”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

    Further reading

    • “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 Dizionario Latino, Olivetti
    • 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.

    Spanish

    Etymology

    Learned borrowing from Latin faciēs. Doublet of faz and haz.

    Noun

    facies f (plural facies)

    1. facies

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