different between facer vs lacer

English

Etymology

face +? -er

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fe?s?(r)/
• Rhymes: -e?s?(r)

Noun

facer (plural facers)

1. An unexpected and stunning blow or defeat.
   • 2005, Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty, Bloomsbury Publishing, paperback, Chapter 1, p. 6,

     “You're such a snob,” she said, with a provoking laugh; coming from the family he was thought to be snobbish about, this was a bit of a facer.

2. (obsolete) One who faces; one who puts on a false show; a bold-faced person.
3. (obsolete) A blow in the face, as in boxing; hence, any severe or stunning check or defeat, as in controversy.

Anagrams

• farce

Asturian

Alternative forms

• fer
• faer
• ?acer

Etymology

From Latin facere, active infinitive of the verb faci? (“I do, I make”).

Verb

facer

1. to make
2. to do

Conjugation

• Reference http://www.academiadelallingua.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Gramatica_Llingua.pdf

Synonyms

• (to make): crear, producir

Galician

Alternative forms

• fazer (Reintegrationist)
• faer, faguer, fer

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese fazer, from Latin facere, present active infinitive of faci?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [fa??e?], (western) [fa?se?]

Verb

facer (first-person singular present fago, first-person singular preterite fixen, past participle feito)

1. to do, make
2. to cook, prepare

   Synonyms: cociñar, preparar

3. (auxiliary with a verb in the impersonal infinitive as the second object) to cause to
4. (transitive, impersonal) to pass (said of time)
5. (transitive, impersonal) to be; to occur (said of a weather phenomenon)

   Synonym: ir

6. first-person singular personal infinitive of facer
7. third-person singular personal infinitive of facer

Conjugation

Related terms

• afacer
• desfacer
• refacer
• satisfacer

References

• “fazer” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “fazer” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “facer” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “facer” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “facer” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Interlingua

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fa?tser/

Verb

facer

1. to do; make

Conjugation

Spanish

Alternative forms

• fer (obsolete)

Etymology

From Latin facere, active infinitive of the verb faci? (“I do, I make”).

Verb

facer (first-person singular present fago, first-person singular preterite fice, past participle fecho)

1. Obsolete form of hacer. (used in some parts of Spain)

Conjugation

English

Etymology

lace +? -er

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?le?s.?(?)/
• Rhymes: -e?s?(r)
• Homophone: laser (Etymology 2)

Noun

lacer (plural lacers)

1. A person or thing who laces

Anagrams

• 'clare, Carle, Clare, Clear, carle, clear, recal

French

Etymology

See lacs

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /la.se/
• Homophone: lasser

Verb

lacer

1. to lace, to lace up

Conjugation

This verb is part of a group of -er verbs for which ‘c’ is softened to a ‘ç’ before the vowels ‘a’ and ‘o’.

Related terms

• lacet

Further reading

• “lacer” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• caler, racle, raclé

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *leh?k- (“to tear, rend”). Cognate with lancin?, Ancient Greek ????? (lakís).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?la.ker/, [???äk?r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?la.t??er/, [?l??t???r]

Adjective

lacer (feminine lacera, neuter lacerum); first/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er)

1. lacerated, mangled, torn to pieces

Declension

First/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er).

Derived terms

• lacer?

References

• lacer in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• lacer in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• lacer in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Old French

Verb

lacer

1. Alternative form of lacier

Conjugation

This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-c, *-cs, *-ct are modified to z, z, zt. In addition, c becomes ç before an a, o or u to keep the /ts/ sound intact. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.