faceto

Borrowed from French facette. Compare English facet, German Facette, Polish faseta, Russian фасе́т (fasét), Spanish faceta, Italian faccétta, Catalan faceta, Portuguese faceta. By surface analysis, faco +‎ -et- +‎ -o.

• IPA^(key): /faˈt͡seto/

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• Rhymes: -eto
• Syllabification: fa‧ce‧to

faceto (accusative singular faceton, plural facetoj, accusative plural facetojn)

1. facet (any one of the flat surfaces cut into a gem)

   faceto de brilianto ― facet of a brilliant

   faceto de kristaloj ― facet of crystals

   faceto de prismo ― facet of a prism

   • 1950, Ivo Lapenna, Retoriko: Kun aparta konsidero al esperantlingva parolarto [Rhetoric: With particular regard to Esperanto language speech]‎^[1], 3. corrected edition, Roterdamo, published 1971:

     La brilianto havas multajn facetojn: ĉiu faceto kontribuas al la blindiga beleco de la ŝtono; ĉiu faceto ricevas sian nuancan belecon de la komuna brilo.

     The brilliant has many facets: every facet contributes to the blinding beauty of the stone; every facet receives its nuanced beauty of the common gloss.

2. (figurative) facet (one among many similar or related, yet still distinct things)

   Synonyms: perspektivo, flanko

   • 1974, Ivo Lapenna, Tazio Carlevaro, Ulrich Lins, Esperanto en Perspektivo: Faktoj kaj analizoj pri la Internacia Lingvo [Esperanto in Perspective: Facts and analyses about the International Language]‎^[2], Londono—Roterdamo: Universala Esperanto-Asocio, published 1974:

     [Unua Parto: 1.3.1 Teknike-Lingva Aspekto] El pure teknike-lingva vidpunkto la problemo havas multajn facetojn, kies komuna fono estas la malfacileco plene ekregi kiun ajn nacian lingvon.
     [Kvara Parto: 18.2.2 Unueco en Diverseco] […] ili, ĉefe pro manko de tutecaj perspektivoj, insistas pri nur unu el la multnombraj facetoj, […].

     [First Part: 1.3.1 Technically-Linguistic Aspect] From purely technically-linguistic viewpoint the problem has many facets, whose common background is the difficulty fully beginning to rule whichever national language.
     [Fourth Part: 18.2.2 Unity in Diversity] […] they, chiefly because of lack of holistic perspectives, insists on only one of the numerous facets, […].

   • 2005, Antonio Valén, “Ĉu Ertl provizore stilekzercas?”, in Monato: internacia magazino‎^[3], Belgio: Flandra Esperanto-Ligo, archived from the original on 19 September 2020:

     Lian poetan faceton li tamen apenaŭ montris ĝis nun, […].

     He however scarcely showed his poetic facet until now, […].

   • 2011 March 23, Tonyo del Barrio, “Timo kaj aliaj sentoj”, in La Blogo‎^[4], archived from the original on 23 September 2011:

     Eble […] ke laboro estas la ĉefa fonto de digno. […] mi konsiderus tion plej normala faceto de la homa vivo […].

     Possibly […] that labor is the chief source of dignity. […] I would consider that most normal facet of the human life […].

• “faceto”, in Reta Vortaro [Online Dictionary] (in Esperanto), 1997-present

Borrowed from Latin facētus.

• IPA^(key): /faˈt͡ʃɛ.to/
• Rhymes: -ɛto
• Hyphenation: fa‧cè‧to

faceto (feminine faceta, masculine plural faceti, feminine plural facete)

1. witty, humorous, facetious
   • 1980, Umberto Eco, “Primo giorno - Sesta”, in Il nome della rosa [The Name of the Rose] (I grandi tascabili), Milan: Bompiani, published 1984, page 55:

     Più tardi mi accorsi che l'uomo era forse di buon cuore e di umore faceto.

     Later I realized that the man was likely goodhearted and of facetious humor.

• facezia

• faceto in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• focate

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [faˈkeː.toː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [faˈt͡ʃɛː.to]
• Hyphenation: fa‧cē‧tō

facētō

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of facētus

faceto

1. first-person singular present indicative of facetar

• IPA^(key): /faˈθeto/ [faˈθe.t̪o] (Spain, Equatorial Guinea)
• IPA^(key): /faˈseto/ [faˈse.t̪o] (Latin America, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -eto
• Syllabification: fa‧ce‧to

Borrowed from Latin facētus.

faceto (feminine faceta, masculine plural facetos, feminine plural facetas)

1. (Mexico) witty, humorous, facetious
2. (Mexico) synonym of presuntuoso
3. (proscribed) synonym of chistoso

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

faceto

1. first-person singular present indicative of facetar

• “faceto”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025