different between fovea vs facies

English

Etymology

From Latin fovea (“ditch, pit”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?f??.vi.?/
• Rhymes: -??vi?

Noun

fovea (plural foveas or foveae or foveæ)

1. (anatomy) A slight depression or pit in a bone or organ.
2. (anatomy) The retinal fovea, or fovea centralis, responsible for sharp central vision.

Derived terms

• foveate
• parafoveal
• postfoveal
• pseudofovea

Related terms

• foveal

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fo?e?/, [?fo??e??]
• Rhymes: -o?e?
• Syllabification: fo?ve?a

Noun

fovea

1. (anatomy) fovea

Declension

Italian

Etymology

From Latin fovea.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?f?.ve.a/

Noun

fovea f (plural fovee)

1. fovea

   Synonym: fossetta

Derived terms

• foveale

Further reading

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

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *b?ow- (“pit, hole”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?fo.u?e.a/, [?f?u?eä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?fo.ve.a/, [?f??v??]

Noun

fovea f (genitive foveae); first declension

1. pit, hole in the ground
2. snare, pitfall

Declension

First-declension noun.

Derived terms

• fove?lis (Renaissance Latin)

Descendants

References

• f?v?a in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• 1. FOVEA in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• 2. FOVEA in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• fovea in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• f?v?a in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette, page 684/2
• “fouea” on page 729/1 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
• Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) , “fovea”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 450/1

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