Etymology

facet

fac·et
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Today it means: Any one of the flat surfaces cut into a gem. Full definition →

French facette ← Middle French face ← Old French face
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*dʰeh₁-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*dʰeh₁k-
  3. Proto-Indo-European*dʰh₁kyéti
  4. Proto-Italic*θakjō
  5. Proto-Italic*fakjō
  6. Latinfaciō
  7. Latinfaciēs
  8. Late Latinfacia
  9. Old Frenchface
  10. Middle Frenchface
  11. Frenchface
  12. Frenchfacette
  13. English todayfacet

Borrowed from French facette.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.