facial
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
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Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁k-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *dʰh₁kyéti
Proto-Italic *θakjō
Proto-Italic *fakjō
Latin faciō
Proto-Italic *-jēs
Latin -iēs
Latin faciēs
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālis
Medieval Latin faciālisbor.
English facial
Early 17th century, borrowed from Medieval Latin faciālis (“face-to-face, direct, open”), from faciēs (“form, configuration, figure; face, visage, countenance”) + -ālis (“-al”, adjectival suffix).
Base: faciēs
Affixes: -ālis
Inflected forms:
form: facials
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of or affecting the face.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
relational
gloss: Concerned with or used in improving the appearance of the face.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
relational
gloss: (of a law or regulation validity) On its face; as it appears (as opposed to on a more probing analysis, as it is applied, etc.).
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The facial constitutionality of the law is in question.
Discipline is a form of counter-law, of dissymmetry and inequality, that operates under the discourse of juridical power to make possible the stated or facial claims of equality and rights characteristic of the French Revolution.
gloss: A personal care beauty treatment which involves cleansing and moisturizing of the human face.
pos: noun
gloss: A kind of early silent film focusing on the facial expressions of the actor.
pos: noun
examples: But in facials, moving picture technology also enabled an exaggeration of this performance tradition, bringing a new emphasis to the details […]
gloss: (in some contact sports) A foul play which involves one player hitting another's face.
pos: noun
tags: slang
gloss: A sex act of ejaculation onto another person's face.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: Long-Dong Chuck gave his co-star a creamy facial.
For the piece she spoke to two women who said they enjoy facials, and who described the act as ‘the mark of a job well done’ and ‘really hot’. But Reid concludes that she herself finds facials deeply unpleasant.
Derived words: acousticofacial
acrofacial
basifacial
bifacial
brachyfacial
buccofacial
cardiofacial
centrofacial
cephalofacial
cervicofacial
cofacial
craniofacial
craniomaxillofacial
cytofacial
dentofacial
dentomaxillofacial
devil facial tumor disease
distofacial
dolichofacial
enantiofacial
encephalofacial
endofacial
epifacial
equifacial
exofacial
extrafacial
facial angle
facial artery
facial composite
facial cream
facial disc
facial discrimination
facial expression
facial feature
facial hair
facialist
faciality
facialize
facially
facial mask
facial nerve
facialness
facial profiling
facial pubes
facial soap
facial tissue
facial yoga
facio-
gustofacial
hemifacial
hemimaxillofacial
heterofacial
immunodeficiency-centromeric instability-facial anomalies syndrome
interfacial
intrafacial
labiofacial
linguofacial
lithofacial
mandibulofacial
maxillofacial
mesiofacial
mesofacial
microfacial
midfacial
minifacial
multifacial
musculofacial
Nablus mask-like facial syndrome
nasofacial
nonfacial
occipitofacial
oculofacial
oculomandibulofacial
odontofacial
omnifacial
orofacial
oromaxillofacial
orthofacial
panfacial
parafacial
perifacial
prefacial
retrofacial
rhinofacial
subfacial
suprafacial
temporofacial
transfacial
transverse facial artery
trifacial
trigeminofacial
unifacial
urofacial
vajacial
velocardiofacial
zygomaticofacial
brachiofacial
cryofacial
vampire facial
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