facies

Borrowed from Latin faciēs (“form, configuration, figure; face, visage, countenance”). Doublet of face.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈfeɪ.ʃi.iːz/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈfeɪ.ʃiˌiz/, /ˈfeɪ.ʃiz/
• Rhymes: -eɪʃiiːz, -eɪʃiːz

facies (countable and uncountable, plural facies)

1. General appearance.
   • 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page 6:

     The Chilean Amphijubula Schust. (Schuster, 1970a) which has the facies of a small Frullania and agrees with Frullania in leaf insertion and branching, has a nontiered seta with 16 epidermal cell rows surrounding 4 inner rows.

2. (medicine) Facial features, like an expression or complexion, typical for patients having certain diseases or conditions.

   costive facies

   Hyponyms: masked facies, moon facies

3. (geology) A body of rock with specified characteristics reflecting its formation, composition, age, and fossil content.

   Hyponyms: biofacies, lithofacies, microfacies, ichnofacies, taphofacies

• “facies”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “facies”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary

• Scaife

From Proto-Italic *fakjēs, which is of disputed origin. It may be from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- (“to do, set, put, impose, place”) (faciēs may be to faciō as speciēs is to speciō, and may literally mean "imposed form"[1]); however, others class it with facētus, fax.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈfa.ki.eːs/, [ˈfäkieːs̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈfa.t͡ʃi.es/, [ˈfäːt͡ʃies]

faciēs f (genitive faciēī); fifth declension

1. (in general) make, form, shape, figure, configuration

   Synonyms: speciēs, frōns, fōrma, habitus

   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 12.891:

     verte omnes tete in facies

     resort to every expedient

     (literally, “change yourself in every shape”)

2. (usually Classical Latin) (in particular) face, countenance, visage
   • 405 CE, Jerome, Vulgate Genesis 1:2:

     Terra autem erat inānis et vacua, et tenebrae erant super faciem abyssī et spīritus Deī ferēbātur super aquās.

     And the earth was void and empty, and darkness was upon the face of the deep; and the spirit of God moved over the waters.

3. (figuratively, Classical Latin) external form, look, condition, appearance

   in faciem + (genitive) ― like, in the guise of

   1. (in particular) external appearance as opposed to reality; pretence, pretext
   2. (transferred sense, poetic) look, sight, aspect

   Synonym: speciēs

4. beauty, loveliness

   Synonyms: pulchritūdō, decus, decor

   Antonyms: dēdecus, dehonestāmentum

Fifth-declension noun.

Old Genitive: faciēs

Gellius: vocabulum facies hoc modo declinatur: "haec facies, huius facies", quod nunc propter rationem grammaticam "faciei" dicitur

• bonifaciēs
• facitergium
• superficiēs

See also facia.

• Italo-Romance:
  • Sicilian: facci
• Occitano-Romance:
  • Catalan: faç
  • Old Occitan: fatz
• Ibero-Romance
  • Extremaduran: hazi
  • Mozarabic: فاج‎ (fāja)
  • Old Portuguese: façe, faz
    • Galician: face
    • Portuguese: face
  • Old Spanish: faz
    • Spanish: faz, haz
• Insular Romance:
  • Sardinian: fache, faghe, faxi
• Borrowings:
  • → English: facies
  • → French: faciès
  • → Portuguese: fácies

faciēs

1. second-person singular future active indicative of faciō

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “facies”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 3: D–F, page 355

• “facies”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “facies”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• facies in Dizionario Latino, Olivetti
• facies 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)
• facies in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette