different between bandage vs habena

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French bandage.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bænd?d?/

Noun

bandage (plural bandages)

1. A strip of gauze or similar material used to protect or support a wound or injury.
   • 1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

     […] he was deadly pale, and the blood-stained bandage round his head told that he had recently been wounded, and still more recently dressed.

2. A strip of cloth bound round the head and eyes as a blindfold.
   • 1844, Alexander Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo [1]

     […] the president informed him that one of the conditions of his introduction was that he should be eternally ignorant of the place of meeting, and that he would allow his eyes to be bandaged, swearing that he would not endeavor to take off the bandage.
3. (figuratively, by extension) A provisional or makeshift solution that provides insufficient coverage or relief.

Derived terms

Related terms

• dressing
• plaster
• splint

Translations

Verb

bandage (third-person singular simple present bandages, present participle bandaging, simple past and past participle bandaged)

1. To apply a bandage to something.
   • 1879, Samuel Clemens (as Mark Twain), A Tramp Abroad, [3]

     ...they ate...whilst they chatted, disputed and laughed. The door to the surgeon's room stood open, meantime, but the cutting, sewing, splicing, and bandaging going on in there in plain view did not seem to disturb anyone's appetite.

Translations

Anagrams

• Adangbe, Dagbane

Danish

Etymology

From French bandage.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /banda?sj?/, [b?an?d?æ???]

Noun

bandage c (singular definite bandagen, plural indefinite bandager)

1. bandage (medical binding)

Usage notes

This typically isn't used for adhesive bandages, which instead are called plastre.

Inflection

Derived terms

• gipsbandage

Further reading

• “bandage” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French bandage.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b?n?da???/
• Hyphenation: ban?da?ge
• Rhymes: -a???

Noun

bandage f (plural bandages)

1. bandage

   Synonym: zwachtel

Derived terms

• bandagist

French

Etymology

bande +? -age

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b??.da?/

Noun

bandage m (plural bandages)

1. bandage

Descendants

• ? Danish: bandage
• ? Dutch: bandage
• ? English: bandage
• ? German: Bandage
• ? Polish: banda?
• ? Swedish: bandage

Further reading

• “bandage” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Interlingua

Noun

bandage (plural bandages)

1. bandage

Norman

Etymology

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Noun

bandage m (plural bandages)

1. (Jersey, medicine) bandage

Swedish

Etymology

From French bandage.

Noun

bandage n

1. a bandage

Declension

Anagrams

• bangade

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin habena

Noun

habena (plural habenae)

1. A restricting bandage or frenum

Anagrams

• Bahena

Latin

Etymology

From Latin habe?.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ha?be?.na/, [hä?be?nä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /a?be.na/, [??b??n?]

Noun

hab?na f (genitive hab?nae); first declension

1. thong, rein, lash, bridle.
2. (naval, of a ship's rigging) sheet.

Declension

First-declension noun.

References

• habena in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• habena in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• habena in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
• habena in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• habena in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin