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Facetus is Latin for:

  1. elegant, fine
  2. courteous, polite
  3. witty, jocose, facetious

The word became known in the Renaissance in the form of facetia, jest or joke. In its plural form it became known as collections of witty tales, best known of which are the Facetiae by Poggio.




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