adverb
facētē
facētē (comparative facētius, superlative facētissimē)
Meaning
- in a funny way, wittily
Numquam tam male est Siculīs quīn aliquid facētē […] dīcant.
It is never so bad for the Sicilians that they wouldn't say something funny70 BCE, Cicero, In Verrem 2.4.95 - in a nice way, nice, elegantly
Latīnē defined in Latin in our graded readers
cum lepōre, ingeniōsēfacētē — in Epistulae, ch. 5
făcētē, adv., v. facetus
I. fin.
Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
facētē adv. with comp. and sup.
facetus, finely, gracefully, neatly : dictum, T.— Pleasantly, wittily, facetiously : dicere: multa conligere: facetius eludimur: facetissime dare.