facetus
Esperanto
Pronunciation
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- IPA(key): /faˈt͡setus/
- Hyphenation: fa‧ce‧tus
- Rhymes: -etus
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *ǵʷʰeh₂k- (“to shine”). Cognate with fax, Lithuanian žvakė (“candle”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /faˈkeː.tus/, [faˈkeː.tʊs]
Inflection
First/second declension.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | facētus | facēta | facētum | facētī | facētae | facēta | |
| Genitive | facētī | facētae | facētī | facētōrum | facētārum | facētōrum | |
| Dative | facētō | facētae | facētō | facētīs | facētīs | facētīs | |
| Accusative | facētum | facētam | facētum | facētōs | facētās | facēta | |
| Ablative | facētō | facētā | facētō | facētīs | facētīs | facētīs | |
| Vocative | facēte | facēta | facētum | facētī | facētae | facēta | |
- comparative: facētior, superlative: facētissimus
References
- facetus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- facetus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- facetus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- facetus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to be witty: facete dicere
- to make witty remarks: facetiis uti, facetum esse
- to indulge in apt witticisms: facete et commode dicere
- a witticism, bon mot: facete dictum
- to be witty: facete dicere
- Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume II, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 495
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