English
facete
Facete comes from Latin facētus ‘witty, jocose, facetious’, and goes back to Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰweh₂k- ‘to shine’.
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*ǵʰweh₂k-‘to shine’reconstructed
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEfacētus‘witty, jocose, facetious’by way of Italian faceto
- Englishearliest quotation 1624facete
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*ǵʰweh₂k-‘to shine’reconstructed
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEfacētus‘witty, jocose, facetious’by way of Italian faceto
- Englishearliest quotation 1624facete
Earliest quotation: 1624, Democritus Junior pseudonym; Robert Burt, The Anatomy of Melancholy: […]: “Adrian the sixth pope[…]gave command that statue should be…”
Every English word from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰweh₂k-
Today it means
adj Facetious.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰweh₂k- / facete