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facete

/fəˈsiːt/ UK

Rhymes with -iːt

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Ultimately from Latin facētus; perhaps via Italian faceto.

adjective more facete · most facete

archaic Facetious. 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 […].

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@misc{facete_2026,
  title = {facete},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/facete},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}