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English
Etymology
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).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈfeɪ.ʃəl/
Audio (General Australian): (file) - Rhymes: -eɪʃəl
Adjective
facial (not comparable)
- (relational) Of or affecting the face.
- (medicine, relational) Concerned with or used in improving the appearance of the face.
- (transferred sense, law) (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.).
- The facial constitutionality of the law is in question.
Coordinate terms
- (dentistry location adjectives) anterior, apical, apicocoronal, axial, buccal, buccoapical, buccocervical, buccogingival, buccolabial, buccolingual, bucco-occlusal, buccopalatal, cervical, coronal, coronoapical, distal, distoapical, distobuccal, distocervical, distocoronal, distofacial, distogingival, distoincisal, distolingual, disto-occlusal, distoclusal, distocclusal, distopalatal, facial, gingival, incisal, incisocervical, inferior, labial, lingual, linguobuccal, linguo-occlusal, mandibular, maxillary, mesial, mesioapical, mesiobuccal, mesiocervical, mesiocoronal, mesiodistal, mesiofacial, mesioincisal, mesiogingival, mesiolingual, mesio-occlusal, mesioclusal, mesiocclusal, mesiopalatal, occlusal, palatal, posterior, proximal, superior, vestibular (Category: en:Dentistry) [edit]
Derived terms
- acousticofacial
- acrofacial
- basifacial
- bifacial
- brachyfacial
- buccofacial
- cardiofacial
- centrofacial
- cephalofacial
- cervicofacial
- cofacial
- craniofacial
- craniomaxillofacial
- cytofacial
- dentofacial
- devil facial tumor disease
- distofacial
- dolichofacial
- enantiofacial
- encephalofacial
- endofacial
- epifacial
- equifacial
- exofacial
- extrafacial
- facial angle
- facial artery
- facial composite
- facial cream
- facial expression
- facial feature
- facial hair
- facialist
- faciality
- facialize
- facially
- facial mask
- facial nerve
- facialness
- facial profiling
- facial soap
- facial tissue
- facial yoga
- facio-
- gustofacial
- hemifacial
- hemimaxillofacial
- heterofacial
- interfacial
- intrafacial
- labiofacial
- linguofacial
- mandibulofacial
- maxillofacial
- mesiofacial
- mesofacial
- microfacial
- midfacial
- minifacial
- multifacial
- musculofacial
- nasofacial
- nonfacial
- oculofacial
- oculomandibulofacial
- odontofacial
- orofacial
- oromaxillofacial
- orthofacial
- panfacial
- parafacial
- perifacial
- prefacial
- retrofacial
- rhinofacial
- subfacial
- suprafacial
- temporofacial
- transfacial
- transverse facial artery
- trifacial
- trigeminofacial
- unifacial
- urofacial
- vajacial
- velocardiofacial
- zygomaticofacial
Translations
of the face
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Noun
facial (plural facials)
- (medicine) A personal care beauty treatment which involves cleansing and moisturizing of the human face.
- (film) A kind of early silent film focusing on the facial expressions of the actor.
- 2004, Simon Popple, Joe Kember, Early Cinema: From Factory Gate to Dream Factory, page 92:
- But in facials, moving picture technology also enabled an exaggeration of this performance tradition, bringing a new emphasis to the details […]
- (slang, sports) (in some contact sports) A foul play which involves one player hitting another's face.
- (slang, pornography, sex) A sex act of male ejaculation onto another person's face.
- Synonym: money shot
- Coordinate term: self-facial
- Chuck gave his co-star a creamy facial.
Derived terms
Translations
beauty treatment
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sex act
References
- “facial”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- “facial”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
Anagrams
Catalan
Etymology
Pronunciation
Adjective
facial m or f (masculine and feminine plural facials)
- facial
- músculs facials
- facial muscles
Further reading
- “facial” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Chinese
Etymology
Pronunciation
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Jyutping: fei1 sou4
- Yale: fēi sòuh
- Cantonese Pinyin: fei1 sou4
- Guangdong Romanization: féi1 sou4
- Sinological IPA (key): /fei̯⁵⁵ sou̯²¹/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
Noun
facial
- (Hong Kong Cantonese) facial; personal care beauty treatment which involves cleansing and moisturizing of the human face
References
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
Adjective
facial (feminine faciale, masculine plural faciaux, feminine plural faciales)
Derived terms
Further reading
- “facial”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Portuguese
Etymology
Pronunciation
Adjective
facial m or f (plural faciais)
- facial (of the face)
Derived terms
Romanian
Etymology
Adjective
facial m or n (feminine singular facială, masculine plural faciali, feminine and neuter plural faciale)
Declension
Declension of facial
singular | plural | ||||||
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masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | ||
nominative/ accusative |
indefinite | facial | facială | faciali | faciale | ||
definite | facialul | faciala | facialii | facialele | |||
genitive/ dative |
indefinite | facial | faciale | faciali | faciale | ||
definite | facialului | facialei | facialilor | facialelor |
Spanish
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Spain) /faˈθjal/ [faˈθjal]
- IPA(key): (Latin America) /faˈsjal/ [faˈsjal]
- Rhymes: -al
- Syllabification: fa‧cial
Adjective
facial m or f (masculine and feminine plural faciales)
Derived terms
Related terms
Further reading
- “facial”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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