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facies
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)
- General appearance.
- (medicine) Facial features, like an expression or complexion, typical for patients having certain diseases or conditions.
- Hyponyms: masked facies, moon facies
- (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
- (in general) make, form, shape, figure, configuration
- (usually Classical Latin) (in particular) face, countenance, visage
- (figuratively, Classical Latin) external form, look, condition, appearance
- (in particular) external appearance as opposed to reality; pretence, pretext
- (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
- 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
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fancies
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?fæn.siz/
- Hyphenation: fan?cies
Noun
fancies
- plural of fancy
- plural of fancie
Verb
fancies
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fancy
Anagrams
- fascine, fiances, fiancés
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