different between facies vs facial

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin faci?s (“form, configuration, figure; face, visage, countenance”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?fe?.?i.i?z/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?fe?.?i?iz/, /?fe?.?iz/
• Rhymes: -e??ii?z, -e??i?z

Noun

facies (countable and uncountable, plural facies)

1. General appearance.
2. (medicine) Facial features, like an expression or complexion, typical for patients having certain diseases or conditions.

   Hyponyms: masked facies, moon facies

3. (geology) A body of rock with specified characteristics reflecting its formation, composition, age, and fossil content.

   Hyponyms: biofacies, lithofacies, microfacies, ichnofacies, taphofacies

References

• “facies”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
• “facies”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary, (Please provide a date or year).

Anagrams

• Scaife

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *fakj?s, further derivation unknown.

• Some refer it to Proto-Indo-European *d?eh?- (“to do”) (faci?s may be to faci? as speci?s is to speci?);
• others class it with fac?tus, fax.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?fa.ki.e?s/, [?fäkie?s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?fa.t??i.es/, [?f??t??i?s]

Noun

faci?s f (genitive faci??); fifth declension

1. (in general) make, form, shape, figure, configuration
2. (usually Classical Latin) (in particular) face, countenance, visage
3. (figuratively, Classical Latin) external form, look, condition, appearance
   1. (in particular) external appearance as opposed to reality; pretence, pretext
   2. (transferred sense, poetic) look, sight, aspect

Inflection

Fifth-declension noun.

Old Genitive: faci?s

Gellius: vocabulum facies hoc modo declinatur: "haec facies, huius facies", quod nunc propter rationem grammaticam "faciei" dicitur

Derived terms

• bonifaci?s
• facitergium
• superfici?s

Descendants

Verb

faci?s

1. second-person singular future active indicative of faci?

References

• 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 Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• facies in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fe?.??l/
• Rhymes: -e???l

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, as it is applied).

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) [edit]}

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

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

Translations

References

• “facial”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
• “facial”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary, (Please provide a date or year).

Anagrams

• cafila

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin faci?lis.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /f?.si?al/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /fa.si?al/

Adjective

facial (masculine and feminine plural facials)

1. facial

Further reading

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

French

Etymology

From Latin faci?lis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fa.sjal/

Adjective

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

1. facial

Derived terms

• valeur faciale

Further reading

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

Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin faci?lis.

Adjective

facial m or f (plural faciais, comparable)

1. facial (of the face)

Romanian

Etymology

From French facial

Adjective

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

1. facial

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin faci?lis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /fa??jal/, [fa??jal]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /fa?sjal/, [fa?sjal]

Adjective

facial (plural faciales)

1. facial

Derived terms

• valor facial

Related terms

• faz
• superficie
• acera

Further reading

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