different between macies vs facies

English

Noun

macies

1. (archaic, medicine) Emaciation; atrophy.

Anagrams

• amices, asemic, camise

Latin

Etymology

From macer (“meager or poor”) +? -i?s.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ma.ki.e?s/, [?mäkie?s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?ma.t??i.es/, [?m??t??i?s]

Noun

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

1. leanness, thinness, meagerness
2. poverty

Declension

Fifth-declension noun.

Derived terms

• macilentus
• emacio

References

• macies in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• macies in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• macies in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

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