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6-letter words (1 found)

FACIES,

5-letter words (5 found)

CAFES,FACES,FASCI,FICES,SAICE,

4-letter words (16 found)

ACES,AESC,ASCI,CAFE,CAFS,CASE,CEAS,FACE,FEIS,FICE,FISC,ICES,SAFE,SAIC,SEIF,SICE,

3-letter words (20 found)

ACE,AIS,CAF,CIS,EAS,EFS,FAE,FAS,FES,FIE,ICE,IFS,SAC,SAE,SAI,SEA,SEC,SEI,SIC,SIF,

2-letter words (11 found)

AE,AI,AS,EA,EF,ES,FA,FE,IF,IS,SI,

1-letter words (1 found)

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Definitions and meaning of facies

facies

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin faciēs (“form, configuration, figure; face, visage, countenance”). Doublet of face.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈfeɪ.ʃi.iːz/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈfeɪ.ʃiˌiz/, /ˈfeɪ.ʃiz/
  • Rhymes: -eɪʃiiːz, -eɪʃiːz

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

Derived terms

References

  • “facies”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
  • “facies”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

Anagrams

  • Scaife

Latin

Alternative forms

  • facia (late)

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *fakjēs, which is of disputed origin. It may be from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- (“to do, set, put, impose, place”) (faciēs may be to faciō as speciēs is to speciō, and may literally mean "imposed form"); however, others class it with facētus, fax.

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈfa.ki.eːs/, [ˈfäkieːs̠]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈfa.t͡ʃi.es/, [ˈfäːt͡ʃies]

Noun

faciēs f (genitive faciēī); fifth declension

  1. (in general) make, form, shape, figure, configuration
    Synonyms: speciēs, frōns, fōrma, habitus
  2. (usually Classical Latin) (in particular) face, countenance, visage
  3. (figuratively, Classical Latin) external form, look, condition, appearance
    in faciem + (genitive) ― like, in the guise of
    1. (in particular) external appearance as opposed to reality; pretence, pretext
    2. (transferred sense, poetic) look, sight, aspect
    Synonym: speciēs
  4. beauty, loveliness
    Synonyms: pulchritūdō, decus, decor
    Antonyms: dēdecus, dehonestāmentum

Inflection

Fifth-declension noun.

Old Genitive: faciēs

Gellius: vocabulum facies hoc modo declinatur: "haec facies, huius facies", quod nunc propter rationem grammaticam "faciei" dicitur

Derived terms

  • bonifaciēs
  • facitergium
  • superficiēs

Descendants

  • Italo-Romance:
    • Sicilian: facci
  • Insular Romance:
    • Sardinian: fache, facci
  • Gallo-Romance:
    • Catalan: faç
    • Old Occitan: fatz
  • Ibero-Romance
    • Extremaduran: hazi
    • Mozarabic: ڢاج (fāja)
    • Old Galician-Portuguese: façe, faz
      • Galician: face
      • Portuguese: face
    • Old Spanish: faz
      • Spanish: haz, faz
  • Borrowings:
    • → English: facies
    • → French: faciès
    • → Portuguese: fácies

Reflexes of the late variant facia:

  • Balkan Romance:
    • Aromanian: fatsã
    • Romanian: față
  • Italo-Romance:
    • Italian: faccia (see there for further descendants)
  • North Italian:
    • Gallo-Italic:
      • Lombard: fassa
      • Piedmontese: fassa, fàssia
      • Romagnol: fàza
    • Venetian: fazza, faça, fasa (see there for further descendants)
    • Friulian: face
    • Romansch: fatscha
  • Gallo-Romance:
    • Occitan: fàcia
    • Old French: face, fache
      • Middle French: face
        • French: face
      • Norman: fache, fach
      • → Middle English: face (see there for further descendants)
  • Borrowings:
    • → Albanian: faqe

Verb

faciēs

  1. second-person singular future active indicative of faciō

References

  • Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “facies”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volumes 3: D–F, page 355

Further reading

  • “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 Dizionario Latino, Olivetti
  • facies in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • facies in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Spanish

Noun

facies f (plural facies)

  1. facies

Further reading

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

Source: wiktionary.org