facetious
/fəˈsiʃəs/fuh-SEE-shuhs
/fəˈsiʃəs/fuh-SEE-shuhs
Meaningwitty
Common meaning: flippant
Other meanings: joking at the wrong time
- facetwitty, elegantLewis & Short, Latin Dictionary (1879), p. 714 · scan
- iousadjective ending: full of, marked by
Journey through time
- Latinfacētus, -a, -um‘witty, elegant’
- Frenchfacetieux
- Old Frenchfacetiesource
- Englishfacetious‘flippant’ · today
Sources & notes
Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.
Pronunciation
- UK IPA: converted from the US form by rule (unchecked). Respelling: generated.
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- US IPA: CMUdict (BSD-2), converted to IPA by rule. Respelling: generated.
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Origin: Built on Latin facētus ‘witty, elegant’.
Roots
- facētus, -a, -um Latin “witty, elegant”
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