facies

See also: facíes and faciès

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

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Rhymes: -eɪʃiiːz, -eɪʃiːz

facies (countable and uncountable, plural facies)

Allgemein appearance.
- 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →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.
(medicine) Facial features, like an expression oder complexion, typical for patients having certain diseases oder conditions.
costive facies

Hyponyms: masked facies, moon facies
(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, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

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.

faciēs f (genitive faciēī); fifth declension

(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”)
(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.
(figuratively, Classical Latin) external form, look, condition, appearance
in speciem + (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
beauty, loveliness
Synonyms: pulchritūdō, decus, decor

Antonym: dēdecus

Old Genitive: faciēs

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

“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.