different between facies vs fossa

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

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?f?s.?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?f?s.?/
• Rhymes: -?s?

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin fossa (“a ditch, trench, fosse”).

Noun

fossa (plural fossae or fossæ)

1. (anatomy) A pit, groove, cavity, or depression.
2. (astronomy) A long, narrow, shallow depression on the body of an extraterrestrial body, such as a planet or moon.

Hyponyms

• glenoid fossa
• iliac fossa
• nasal fossa
• popliteal fossa

Derived terms

• fossula
• fossulate

Related terms

• fosse

Translations

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Malagasy fosa.

Noun

fossa (plural fossas)

1. A large nocturnal reddish-brown catlike mammal (Cryptoprocta ferox) of the civet family, endemic to the rainforests of Madagascar. It is slender, long-tailed and has retractile claws and anal scent glands.

Translations

Anagrams

• SOFAs, sofas

Catalan

Etymology

Latin fossa

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /?fo.s?/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /?fo.sa/

Noun

fossa f (plural fosses)

1. grave, pit

2. (anatomy) fossa

Derived terms

• fossat
• fosser

Further reading

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

Icelandic

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?s?a

Noun

fossa

1. indefinite accusative/genitive plural of foss

Italian

Etymology

From Latin fossa.

Noun

fossa f (plural fosse)

1. pit, hole
2. grave
3. (anatomy) fossa
4. trough (depression between waves or ridges)

Derived terms

Related terms

• fossato

Anagrams

• sfaso, sfasò

Further reading

• fossa in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Ladin

Verb

fossa

1. third-person singular/plural imperfect subjunctive of ester

Latin

Etymology

From fodi? (“to dig out, to excavate”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?fos.sa/, [?f?s??ä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?fos.sa/, [?f?s??]

Noun

fossa f (genitive fossae); first declension

1. (in general) A ditch, trench, moat, fosse.

   Synonyms: fovea, scrobs, fossio

   1. A gutter, waterway.

      Synonym: colliciae

   2. A furrow drawn to mark foundations.
   3. (Late Latin) A grave.
2. A boundary.

Declension

First-declension noun.

Derived terms

• fossula

Related terms

Descendants

References

• fossa in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• fossa in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• fossa in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• fossa in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
• fossa in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• fossa in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

See the etymology of the main entry.

Alternative forms

• fosset

Verb

fossa

1. inflection of fosse:
   1. simple past
   2. past participle

Etymology 2

From Malagasy fosa.

Noun

fossa m (definite singular fossaen, indefinite plural fossaer, definite plural fossaene)

1. a fossa (Cryptoprocta ferox)

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Malagasy fosa.

Noun

fossa m (definite singular fossaen, indefinite plural fossaer or fossaar, definite plural fossaene or fossaane)

1. a fossa (Cryptoprocta ferox)

Etymology 2

From the noun foss m (“waterfall”).

Alternative forms

• fosse (e- and split infinitives)

Verb

fossa (present tense fossar, past tense fossa, past participle fossa, passive infinitive fossast, present participle fossande, imperative foss)

1. (intransitive) to flow rapidly, fizz, roar, foam

References

• “fossa” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Anagrams

• ofsas

Old Norse

Noun

fossa

1. genitive plural indefinite of foss m

Portuguese

Verb

fossa

1. inflection of fossar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative