facetia
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Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From facētus (“witty”) + -ia.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical) IPA(key): /faˈkeː.ti.a/, [fäˈkeːt̪iä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /faˈt͡ʃet.t͡si.a/, [fäˈt͡ʃɛt̪ː͡s̪iä]
Noun[edit]
facētia f (genitive facētiae); first declension
Declension[edit]
First-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | facētia | facētiae |
| Genitive | facētiae | facētiārum |
| Dative | facētiae | facētiīs |
| Accusative | facētiam | facētiās |
| Ablative | facētiā | facētiīs |
| Vocative | facētia | facētiae |
Related terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
- French: facétie
- Italian: facezia
- Portuguese: facécia
- Romanian: faceție
- Sicilian: facizza, facìzzia
- Spanish: facecia
References[edit]
- “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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- facetia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to make witty remarks: facetiis uti, facetum esse
- to make witty remarks: facetiis uti, facetum esse
- “facetious”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.