Etymology

multifaceted

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Today it means: Having multiple facets or (geometric) faces. Full definition →

English facet ← French facette ← Middle French face
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*mel-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*ml̥tós?
  3. Proto-Italic*moltos
  4. Latinmultus
  5. Latinmultī
  6. Middle Englishmulti-
  7. Englishmulti-
  8. Proto-Indo-European*dʰeh₁-
  9. Proto-Indo-European*dʰeh₁k-
  10. Proto-Indo-European*dʰh₁kyéti
  11. Proto-Italic*θakjō
  12. Proto-Italic*fakjō
  13. Latinfaciō
  14. Latinfaciēs
  15. Late Latinfacia
  16. Old Frenchface
  17. Middle Frenchface
  18. Frenchface
  19. Frenchfacette
  20. Englishfacet
  21. English todaymultifaceted

From multi- + facet + -ed.

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