facetia

From facētus (“witty”) +‎ -ia.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /faˈkeː.ti.a/, [fäˈkeːt̪iä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /faˈt͡ʃet.t͡si.a/, [fäˈt͡ʃɛt̪ː͡s̪iä]

facētia f (genitive facētiae); first declension

1. (usually in the plural) jest, wit, humour

First-declension noun.

• facētē
• facētior
• facētus

• French: facétie
• Italian: facezia
• Portuguese: facécia
• Romanian: faceție
• Spanish: facecia

• “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, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to make witty remarks: facetiis uti, facetum esse
    
• facetious in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911