facia

facia (plural facias)

1. Alternative form of fascia

• AFAIC

Reassignment of Classical Latin faciēs from the fifth declension to the first. Attested in Vergilius (7th. c.).[1]

facia f (genitive faciae); first declension

1. (Late Latin or Medieval Latin) face

• Balkan Romance:
  • Aromanian: fatsã
  • Romanian: față
• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: faccia
    • → Catalan: fatxa
    • → Greek: φάτσα (fátsa)
    • → Occitan: facha (Niçard)
    • → Sardinian: fàcia, fatza
• North Italian:
  • Gallo-Italic:
    • Lombard: fassa
    • Piedmontese: fassa, fàssia
    • Romagnol: fàza
  • Venetian: faça, fasa
• Rhaeto-Romance:
  • Friulian: face
  • Romansch: fatscha
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Occitan: fàcia
  • Old French: face, fache
    • Middle French: face
      • French: face
    • Norman: fache, fach
    • → Middle English: face (see there for further descendants)
• Borrowings:
  • → Proto-Albanian: *fakii̯ā
    • Albanian: faqe

From Ottoman Turkish فاجعه‎ (faci'a), from Arabic فَاجِعَة‎ (fājiʿa). Compare Azerbaijani faciə.

facia (definite accusative faciayı, plural facialar)

1. catastrophe, tragedy
   • 1935 November 13, “Facianın plânçosu: 24 ölü ve kayıb!”, in Cumhuriyet, Istanbul:

     Evvelki geceki Inebolu vapuru faciasının kurbanları hakkında yapılan tahkikat ve tetkikat ilk tahminlerin biraz mubalâğali olduğunu göstermiştir.

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• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “facia”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “فاجع”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1358
• Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013) The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN