different between facies vs faeces

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

Noun

faeces pl (normally plural, singular faex)

1. Britain standard spelling of feces.
   • 1968 May, W. B. Healy, Ingestion of Soil by Dairy Cows, New Zealand Journal of Agricultural Research, page 487,

     This paper reports on ingestion of soil by dairy cows using titanium analysis of faeces by the X-ray fluorescence technique, and gives the range of soil intakes of a year on both an individual and a herd basis.

   • 1984 April 19, David F. Chantrey, James B. Reid, C. E. Davie, Dog Business, New Scientist, page 48,

     The fact that dogs have a well developed sense of smell suggests that they might be able to use the odour of faeces as a means of communicating.

   • 2004, Håkan Jönsson, Håkan Jönsson, Anna Richert Stintzing, Björn Vinnerås, Eva Salomon, Guidelines on the Use of Urine and Faeces in Crop Production, page 1,

     Urine and faeces are complete fertilizers of high quality with low levels of contaminants such as heavy metals. Urine is rich in nitrogen, while faeces are rich in phosphorous, potassium and organic matter.

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?fae?.ke?s/, [?fäe?ke?s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?fe.t??es/, [?f??t???s]

Noun

faec?s

1. nominative plural of faex
2. accusative plural of faex
3. vocative plural of faex

References

• faeces in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers