facete

Ultimately from Latin facētus; perhaps via Italian faceto.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /fəˈsiːt/

facete (comparative more facete, superlative most facete)

1. (archaic) Facetious.
   • 1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy, Oxford: Printed by Iohn Lichfield and Iames Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 216894069; The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd corrected and augmented edition, Oxford: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, 1624, OCLC 54573970, partition I, section 2, member 4, subsection iv:

     Adrian the sixth pope […] gave command that statue should be demolished and burned, the ashes flung into the River Tiber, and had done it forthwith, had not Lodovicus Suessanus, a facete companion, dissuaded him to the contrary […].

• facetely
• faceteness

facete f pl

1. Feminine plural of adjective faceto.

facēte

1. vocative masculine singular of facētus

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

facete

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of facetar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of facetar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of facetar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of facetar