faceteとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /fəˈsiːt/

形容詞

facete (comparative more facete, superlative most facete)

1. (archaic) Facetious.
   • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 54573970, partition I, section 2, member 4, subsection iv:

     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 […].

派生語

• facetely
• faceteness

Latin

副詞

facētē (comparative facētius, superlative facētissimē)

1. in a funny way, wittily
   • 106 BCE – 43 BCE, Cicero, Against Verres 2.4.95:

     Numquam tam male est Siculīs quīn aliquid facētē […] dīcant.

     It is never so bad for the Sicilians that they wouldn't say something funny