facetia

From facētus (“witty”) +‎ -ia.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /faˈkeː.ti.a/

facētia f (genitive facētiae); first declension

1. (usually in the plural) jest, wit, humour

First-declension noun.

• facētē
• facētior
• facētus

• French: facétie
• Italian: facezia
• Portuguese: facécia
• Spanish: facecia

• facetia in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• facetia in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• facetia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to make witty remarks: facetiis uti, facetum esse
    
• facetious in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911