facer

• IPA^(key): /ˈfeɪsə(ɹ)/

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• Rhymes: -eɪsə(ɹ)

From face (noun) +‎ -er.

facer (plural facers)

1. (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.

2. (by extension) An unexpected and stunning blow or defeat.

   Synonym: slap in the face

   • 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 1, in The Line of Beauty […], 1st US edition, New York, N.Y.: Bloomsbury Publishing, →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.

face (verb) +‎ -er

facer (plural facers)

1. (obsolete) One who faces; one who puts on a false show; a bold-faced person.

• farce

• fer
• faer
• ḥacer
• fader
• ḥer

Inherited from Latin facere.

• IPA^(key): /faˈθeɾ/, [faˈθeɾ]

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facer

1. to make
2. to do

• Reference http://www.academiadelallingua.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Gramatica_Llingua.pdf

• (to make): crear, producir

• fazer (reintegrationist)
• faer, faguer, fer

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

• (standard) IPA^(key): [faˈθeɾ]
• (dialectal, western) IPA^(key): [faˈseɾ]

facer (first-person singular present fago, first-person singular preterite fixen, past participle feito)

1. to do, make
2. to cook, prepare

   Synonyms: cociñar, preparar

3. (auxiliary with a verb in the impersonal infinitive as the second object) to cause to
4. (transitive, impersonal) to pass (said of time)
5. (transitive, impersonal) to be; to occur (said of a weather phenomenon)

   Synonym: ir

6. (transitive, followed by the age) to turn a certain age

   A miña filla fixo nove anos onte ― My daughter turned 9 year old yesterday

• afacer
• desfacer
• refacer
• satisfacer

• “fazer” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “fazer” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “facer” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “facer” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “facer” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

From Latin facere.

• IPA^(key): /faˈt͡ser/

facer

1. to do; make

• far (archaic)

Inherited from Old Spanish facer, from Latin facere.

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /faˈθeɾ/ [faˈθeɾ]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /faˈseɾ/ [faˈseɾ]
• Rhymes: -eɾ
• Syllabification: fa‧cer

facer (first-person singular present fago, first-person singular preterite fice, past participle fecho)

1. Obsolete form of hacer.

• “facer”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014