See facies in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"links": [
[
"external",
"external"
],
[
"form",
"form"
],
[
"look",
"look"
],
[
"condition",
"condition"
],
[
"appearance",
"appearance"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(Classical Latin, figuratively) external form, look, condition, appearance"
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "speciēs"
}
],
"tags": [
"Classical-Latin",
"declension-5",
"figuratively"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Classical Latin"
],
"glosses": [
"external form, look, condition, appearance",
"external appearance as opposed to reality; pretence, pretext"
],
"links": [
[
"external",
"external"
],
[
"form",
"form"
],
[
"look",
"look"
],
[
"condition",
"condition"
],
[
"appearance",
"appearance"
],
[
"reality",
"reality#English"
],
[
"pretence",
"pretence"
],
[
"pretext",
"pretext"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(Classical Latin, figuratively) external form, look, condition, appearance",
"(in particular) external appearance as opposed to reality; pretence, pretext"
],
"raw_tags": [
"in particular"
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "speciēs"
}
],
"tags": [
"Classical-Latin",
"declension-5",
"figuratively"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Classical Latin",
"Latin poetic terms",
"Latin terms with transferred senses"
],
"glosses": [
"external form, look, condition, appearance",
"look, sight, aspect"
],
"links": [
[
"external",
"external"
],
[
"form",
"form"
],
[
"look",
"look"
],
[
"condition",
"condition"
],
[
"appearance",
"appearance"
],
[
"sight",
"sight"
],
[
"aspect",
"aspect"
]
],
"qualifier": "transferred sense",
"raw_glosses": [
"(Classical Latin, figuratively) external form, look, condition, appearance",
"(transferred sense, poetic) look, sight, aspect"
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "speciēs"
}
],
"tags": [
"Classical-Latin",
"declension-5",
"figuratively",
"poetic"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"beauty, loveliness"
],
"links": [
[
"beauty",
"beauty"
],
[
"loveliness",
"loveliness"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "pulchritūdō"
},
{
"word": "decus"
},
{
"word": "decor"
}
],
"tags": [
"declension-5"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "[ˈfa.ki.eːs]",
"tags": [
"Classical-Latin"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[ˈfaː.t͡ʃi.es]",
"note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
}
],
"word": "facies"
}
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"section": "Latin",
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"title": "facies",
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