Faciesとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

Borrowed from Latin faciēs (“form, configuration, figure; face, visage, countenance”). Doublet of face.

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈfeɪ.ʃi.iːz/
• (General American) IPA: /ˈfeɪ.ʃiˌiz/, /ˈfeɪ.ʃiz/
• 韻: -eɪʃiiːz, -eɪʃiːz

名詞

facies (countable and uncountable, plural facies)

1. General appearance.
   • 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page 6:

     The Chilean Amphijubula Schust. (Schuster, 1970a) which has the facies of a small Frullania and agrees with Frullania in leaf insertion and branching, has a nontiered seta with 16 epidermal cell rows surrounding 4 inner rows.

2. (medicine) Facial features, like an expression or complexion, typical for patients having certain diseases or conditions.

   Hyponyms: masked facies, moon facies

   costive facies

3. (geology) A body of rock with specified characteristics reflecting its formation, composition, age, and fossil content.

   Hyponyms: biofacies, lithofacies, microfacies, ichnofacies, taphofacies

派生語

参照

• “facies”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “facies”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

語源 2

From facie +‎ -s.

名詞

facies

1. plural of facie

アナグラム

• Scaife

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈfa.ki.eːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈfaː.t͡ʃi.es]

動詞

faciēs

1. second-person singular future active indicative of faciō

名詞

faciēs f (genitive faciēī); fifth declension

1. (in general) make, form, shape, figure, configuration

   Synonyms: speciēs, frōns, fōrma, habitus

   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 12.891:

     verte omnes tete in facies

     resort to every expedient

     (literally, “change yourself in every shape”)

2. (usually Classical Latin) a particular face, countenance or visage
   • 405 CE, Jerome, Vulgate Genesis.1.2:

     Terra autem erat inānis et vacua, et tenebrae erant super faciem abyssī: et spīritus Deī ferēbātur super aquās.

     And the earth was void and empty, and darkness was upon the face of the deep; and the spirit of God moved over the waters.

3. (Classical Latin, figuratively) external form, look, condition, appearance

   in faciem + (genitive) ― like, in the guise of

   1. (in particular) external appearance as opposed to reality; pretence, pretext
   2. (transferred sense, poetic) look, sight, aspect

   Synonym: speciēs

4. beauty, loveliness

   Synonyms: pulchritūdō, decus, decor

語形変化

Fifth-declension noun.

別の表記

• facia (late)

派生語

派生した語

Reflexes of the late variant facia:

参照

Further reading

• “facies”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “facies”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• facies in Dizionario Latino, Olivetti
• "facies", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “facies”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “facies”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 3: D–F, page 355