facha

14th century. From Old Galician and Old Portuguese facha, from Vulgar Latin *fascla, from syncopation of *fascula, from Latin facula (“small torch”) crossed with fascis (“bundle”).[1] Compare Portuguese facha, Spanish hacha.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfat͡ʃa̝/

facha f (plural fachas)

1. torch made from a bunch or faggot of straw
   • c1350, Kelvin M. Parker (ed.), Historia Troyana. Santiago: Instituto "Padre Sarmiento", p. 57:

     Et ẽna camara avia moy grã lume de candeas et de fachas que y ardiam

     in the room there were a great light because of the candles and torches burning there

   Synonyms: facho, fachuzo

2. large votive candle

• facheiro

From Italian faccia, probably through Spanish facha.

facha f (plural fachas)

1. looks of a person, when considered negatively

From Spanish facha, from Italian fascista. Compate French facho.

facha m or f (plural fachas)

1. (informal, offensive) fascist
2. (derogative) right-wing

facha m or f (plural fachas)

1. (informal, offensive) fascist
2. (derogative) right-wing person

From Old French hache (“axe”). Compate Spanish hacha.

facha m (plural fachas)

1. (archaic) battle axe

• “facha” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “facha” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “facha” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “facha” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “facha” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfat͡ʃa/

facha f (plural fachas)

1. clothing in poor condition because of overuse
2. clothing in good condition but too informal for a specific occasion

• fachoso

From fascista.

facha (plural fachas)

1. (slang) fascist
2. (derogative, Spain) right-wing

facha m or f (plural fachas)

1. (slang) fascist
2. (derogative, Spain) right-wing person

facha

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of fachar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of fachar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of fachar.

• “facha” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.