# facer
## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfeɪsə(ɹ)/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -eɪsə(ɹ)

### Etymology 1

From face (noun) +‎ -er.

#### Noun

facer (plural facers)
* (obsolete) A blow in the face, as in boxing.
** 1856 May, Thomas Hughes, quoting Charles Kingsley, “Prefatory Memoir”, in Charles Kingsley, Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet. […], London: Macmillan and Co., published 1876, →OCLC, page lvi:I made £150 by Alton Locke, and never lost a farthing; and I got, not in spite of, but by the rows, a name and a standing with many a one who would never have heard of me otherwise, and I should have been a stercoraceous mendicant if I had hollowed when I got a facer, while I was winning by the cross, though I didn't mean to fight one.
* (by extension) An unexpected and stunning blow or defeat.
    Synonym: slap in the face
** 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 1, in The Line of Beauty […], London: Picador, →ISBN, page 6:“You're such a snob,” she said, with a provoking laugh; coming from the family he was thought to be snobbish about, this was a bit of a facer.
** 2024 January 27, Janan Ganesh, “Could there be a liberal demagogue?”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 21:He [Joschka Fischer] was for Nato, looser visa rules and—quite the facer for his pacifist colleagues—the bombing of Serbia.
* (slang) A serving of alcoholic drink; a dram.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Edgar Wallace to this entry?)
       Dory […] poured a little whisky into a glass, and grew reminiscent. “I had a facer myself this morning before I came down,” he said.

#### References

* (alcoholic drink): John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary

### Etymology 2

From face (verb) +‎ -er.

#### Noun

facer (plural facers)
* (obsolete) One who faces; one who puts on a false show; a bold-faced person.

### Anagrams

* farce, EACRF

## Asturian
### Alternative forms

* faer
* fer
* ḥacer (Eastern Asturias)
* fader (Allande)
* ḥer (Cabrales)

### Etymology

Inherited from Latin facere.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /faˈθeɾ/ [faˈθeɾ]
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -eɾ
* Syllabification: fa‧cer

### Noun

facer m (plural faceres)
* task, chore
    Synonym: buízu

### Verb

facer
* to make
* to do
* (reflexive) to pretend being
    ¿Yes fatu o faiste? ― Are you stupid or are you pretending it?

#### Synonyms

* (to make): crear, producir

#### Derived terms

* facer en
* facer fumo
* facer camín
* facer candela
* facer de menos
* facer el papelón
* facese a
* facer la rosca
* facer por
* facer nueche
* facer pie
* facer en pelu'l demoniu

## Galician
### Alternative forms

* fazer (reintegrationist)
* faer, faguer, fer

### Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese fazer, from Latin facere. Compare Portuguese fazer, Spanish hacer.

### Pronunciation

* (standard) IPA: [faˈθeɾ]
* (dialectal, western) IPA: [faˈseɾ]

### Verb

facer (first-person singular present fago, first-person singular preterite fixen, past participle feito)
* to do, make
* to cook, prepare
    Synonyms: cociñar, preparar
* (auxiliary with a verb in the impersonal infinitive as the second object) to cause to
* (transitive, impersonal) to pass (said of time)
* (transitive, impersonal) to be; to occur (said of a weather phenomenon)
    Synonym: ir
* (transitive, followed by the age) to turn a certain age
    A miña filla fixo nove anos onte ― My daughter turned 9 year old yesterday

#### Related terms

* afacer
* desfacer
* refacer
* satisfacer

### References

* Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “fazer”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “fazer”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “facer”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “facer”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “facer”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

## Interlingua
### Etymology

From Latin facere.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /faˈt͡ser/

### Verb

facer
* to do; make

#### Conjugation

| infinitive | infinitive | facer | facer |
| participle | participle | present | perfect |
| participle | participle | facente | facite |
| active | | simple | perfect |
| active | present | face | ha facite |
| active | past | faceva | habeva facite |
| active | future | facera | habera facite |
| active | conditional | facerea | haberea facite |
| active | imperative | face | |
| passive | | simple | perfect |
| passive | present | es facite | ha essite facite |
| passive | past | esseva facite | habeva essite facite |
| passive | future | essera facite | habera essite facite |
| passive | conditional | esserea facite | haberea essite facite |
| passive | imperative | sia facite | |

## Spanish
### Alternative forms

* far (archaic)

### Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish fazer, facer, from Latin facere.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Spain) /faˈθeɾ/ [faˈθeɾ]
* IPA: (Latin America, Philippines) /faˈseɾ/ [faˈseɾ]
* Rhymes: -eɾ
* Syllabification: fa‧cer

### Verb

facer (first-person singular present fago, first-person singular preterite fice, past participle fecho)
* Obsolete form of hacer.

#### Conjugation

$^1$Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language. $^2$Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tú form for the present subjunctive.
These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.

### Further reading

* “facer”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10