Search for: [Abstract = "\"Facet\" \(\"guy\"\) \(from the Latin \"facetus\" \"charming\" originally meant \"elegant, polite, witty\"\; cf . \"facecyja\" \"concept\"\). From medieval Latin the notion entered the student community and then only in the 1800s made its way into generally used vernacular as a word of low register, derisive, denoting an outsider to one`s sphere, someone of pretentious behavior and attire. As late as in the 20th century, it was still a pejorative name to call \"a person of uncertain provenance, a charakter\". Nowadays the word is popular particularly with the student community \(a possible continuation\?\), also used by female students."]

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