façade

== English == === Etymology === Unadapted borrowing from French façade. === Pronunciation === === Noun === façade (plural façades) Alternative form of facade. == Dutch == === Etymology === Unadapted borrowing from French façade, itself from Italian facciata. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˌfaːˈsaː.də/ Hyphenation: fa‧ça‧de Rhymes: -aːdə === Noun === façade f (plural façades, diminutive façadetje n) façade (of a building) façade (deceptive outward appearance) (metonymy) face ==== Derived terms ==== façadisme ==== Descendants ==== Afrikaans: fasade → Indonesian: fasade → West Frisian: fasade == French == === Etymology === Borrowed from Italian facciata, a derivation of faccia (“front”), from Latin facies (“face”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /fa.sad/ Rhymes: -ad === Noun === façade f (plural façades) façade (of a building) L'entrée principale, au centre de la façade, est précédée d'un perron. (The main entrance, in the center of the façade, is preceded by a flight of steps.) façade (deceptive outward appearance) Je me charge de vous montrer Lisbonne. Une belle façade, oui! mais vous verrez ce qu'il y a derrière! (Simone de Beauvoir, Les Mandarins, 1954, p. 88) ==== Descendants ==== → Czech: fasáda f → Danish: facade c → Dutch: façade fAfrikaans: fasade→ Indonesian: fasade→ West Frisian: fasade → English: facade → German: Fassade f → Indonesian: fasad → Luxembourgish: Fassad → Russian: фасад (fasad) → Slovak: fasáda f → Swedish: fasad c === Further reading === “façade”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012