Meanings
adjectivefacete (comparative more facete, superlative most facete)
comparative more facete · superlative most facete
- archaicFacetious.
Adrian the sixth pope[…]gave command that statue should be demolished and burned, the ashes flung into the River Tiber, and had done it forthwith, had not Lodovicus Suessanus, a facete companion, dissuaded him to the contrary […].
1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition I, section 2, member 4, subsection iv
Origin
- Italianfaceto
- Latinfacētus
- Englishfacete
Ultimately from Latin facētus; perhaps via Italian faceto.
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Rhymes with facete
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APA
facete. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/facete
MLA
“facete.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/facete. Accessed November 4, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “facete,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/facete.
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