facial

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).

• IPA^(key): /ˈfeɪ.ʃəl/

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃəl

facial (not comparable)

1. (relational) Of or affecting the face.
2. (medicine, relational) Concerned with or used in improving the appearance of the face.
3. (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.

facial (plural facials)

1. (medicine) A personal care beauty treatment which involves cleansing and moisturizing of the human face.
2. (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 […]

3. (slang, sports) (in some contact sports) A foul play which involves one player hitting another's face.
4. (slang, pornography, sex) A sex act of ejaculation onto another person's face.

   Synonym: money shot

   Coordinate term: self-facial

   Long-Dong Chuck gave his co-star a creamy facial.

• “facial”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “facial”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

• cafila

Borrowed from Latin faciālis.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [fə.siˈal]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [fa.siˈal]

facial m or f (masculine and feminine plural facials)

1. facial

   músculs facials

   facial muscles

• “facial” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

From English facial.

facial

1. (Hong Kong Cantonese) facial; personal care beauty treatment which involves cleansing and moisturizing of the human face

   做facial [Cantonese]  ―  zou⁶ fei¹ sou⁴ [Jyutping]  ―  to have a facial treatment

• English Loanwords in Hong Kong Cantonese

From Latin faciālis.

• IPA^(key): /fa.sjal/

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facial (feminine faciale, masculine plural faciaux, feminine plural faciales)

1. facial

• valeur faciale

• “facial”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Borrowed from Latin faciālis.

• Rhymes: (Portugal) -al, (Brazil) -aw
• Hyphenation: fa‧ci‧al

facial m or f (plural faciais)

1. facial (of the face)

• “facial”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
• “facial”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025

Borrowed from French facial.

facial m or n (feminine singular facială, masculine plural faciali, feminine and neuter plural faciale)

1. facial

From Latin faciālis.

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /faˈθjal/ [faˈθjal]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /faˈsjal/ [faˈsjal]
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: fa‧cial

facial m or f (masculine and feminine plural faciales)

1. facial

• “facial”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10