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.

3. (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.

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

From face (verb) +‎ -er.

facer (plural facers)

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

• farce, EACRF

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

Inherited from Latin facere.

• IPA^(key): /faˈθeɾ/, [faˈθeɾ]

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facer m (plural faceres)

1. task, chore

   Synonym: buízu

facer

1. to make
2. to do
3. (reflexive) to pretend being

   ¿Yes fatu o faiste? ― Are you stupid or are you pretending it?

Impersonal forms
Infinitive		facer/faer
Gerund		faciendo/fayendo
Past participle		fechu
Personal forms
		yo	tu	él~elli/-a/-o	nosotros/-es~nós	vosotros/-es~vós	ellos/-es
Indicative	Present	fago faigo	faes	fai	facemos faemos	facéis faéis	faen
	Imperfect preterite	facía faía	facíes faíes	facía faía	facíamos facíemos facíamos faíemos	facíais facíeis faíais faíeis	facíen faíen
	Perfect preterite	fici fixi	ficisti ficesti fixisti fixesti	fizo fixo	ficimos ficiemos fiximos fixemos	ficistis ficiestis fixistis fixestis	ficieron fixeron
	Pluperfect preterite	ficiera ficiere fixera fixere	ficieras ficieres fixeras fixeres	ficiera ficiere fixera fixere	ficiéramos ficiéremos fixéramos fixéremos	ficierais ficiereis fixerais fixereis	ficieran ficieren fixeran fixeren
		yo	tu	él~elli/-a/-o	nosotros/-es~nós	vosotros/-es~vós	ellos/-es
Subjunctive	Present	faga faiga	fagas faigas	faga faiga	fagamos faigamos	fagáis faigáis	fagan faigan
	Imperfect preterite	ficiera ficiere fixera fixere	ficieras ficieres fixeras fixeres	ficiera ficiere fixera fixere	ficiéramos ficiéremos fixéramos fixéremos	ficierais ficiereis fixerais fixereis	ficieran ficieren fixeran fixeren
		yo	tu	él~elli/-a/-o	nosotros/-es~nós	vosotros/-es~vós	ellos/-es
Potential	Future	fadré fairé	fadrás fairás	fadrá fairá	fadremos fairemos	fadréis fairéis	fadrán fairán
	Conditional	fadría fairía	fadríes fairíes	fadría fairía	fadríamos fadríemos fairíamos fairíemos	fadríais fadríeis fairíais fairíeis	fadríen fairíen
		-	tu	vusté	nosotros/-es~nós	vosotros/-es~vós	vustedes
Imperative			fai		vamos facer vamos faer	facéi faéi

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

• (to make): crear, producir

• 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

• 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

• 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: ILG
• 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

From Latin facere.

• IPA^(key): /faˈt͡ser/

facer

1. to do; make

• far (archaic)

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

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /faˈθeɾ/ [faˈθeɾ]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /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 [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28