facetia

== Latin == === Etymology === From facētus (“witty”) +‎ -ia. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [faˈkeː.ti.a] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [faˈt͡ʃɛt.t͡si.a] === Noun === facētia f (genitive facētiae); first declension (usually in the plural) jest, wit, humour ==== Declension ==== First-declension noun. ==== Related terms ==== facētē facētior facētus ==== Descendants ==== French: facétie Italian: facezia Portuguese: facécia Romanian: faceție Sicilian: facizza, facìzzia Spanish: facecia === References === “facetia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press "facetia", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) “facetia”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co. William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “facetious”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.