different between fascia vs siding

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fascia (“a band, bandage, swathe”). Related to fasc?s (“bundle of rods containing an axe with the blade projecting”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?ask- (“bundle, band”). Doublet of fess.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fæ??/, /?fæ?j?/, /?fæ?i.?/
• IPA^(key): /?fe???/, /?fe??j?/, /?fe??i.?/ (especially sense 1)
• Rhymes: -æ??

Noun

fascia (plural fascias or fasciae)

2. (architecture) A wide band of material covering the ends of roof rafters, sometimes supporting a gutter in steep-slope roofing, but typically it is a border or trim in low-slope roofing.

   Synonym: frieze

3. A face or front cover of an appliance, especially of a mobile phone.

   Synonym: case

5. (Britain) A dashboard.

   Synonym: dashboard

6. (architecture) A flat band or broad fillet; especially, one of the three bands that make up the architrave, in the Ionic order.
7. A broad well-defined band of color.
8. A band, sash, or fillet; especially, in surgery, a bandage or roller.
10. (ecclesiastical, fashion) A sash worn by certain members of the Catholic and Anglican churches.

    Synonym: sash

11. (anatomy) The layer of loose tissue, often containing fat, immediately beneath the skin; the stronger layer of connective tissue covering and investing all muscles; an aponeurosis.
12. The signboard above a shop or other location open to the public.

Derived terms

• fascial

Translations

Usage notes

The plural fascias is used for the first five definitions while fasciae is used for the sixth.

Anagrams

• AFAICS, facias

Italian

Etymology

From Latin fascia. Compare Spanish faja, Portuguese faixa, Romanian fa??.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fa?.?a/
• Hyphenation: fà?scia
• Rhymes: -a??a

Noun

fascia f (plural fasce)

1. strip, band
2. bandage
3. sash
4. (geography) belt
5. (heraldry) fess

See also

• bandana

Anagrams

• fiasca

Latin

Etymology

See fascis.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?fas.ki.a/, [?fäs?kiä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?fa.?i.a/, [?f???i?]

Noun

fascia f (genitive fasciae); first declension

1. band, bandage, swathe, strip, ribbon
2. (New Latin) necktie
   • 2003, J. K. Rowling (Translation by Peter Needham), Harrius Potter et Philosophi Lapis, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, London, page 2:

     Dominus Dursley bombiebat dum fasciam hebetissimi coloris eligebat idoneam ad negotia gerenda

Declension

First-declension noun.

Derived terms

• fasci?
• fasciola

Descendants

• Eastern Romance:
  • Aromanian: fashi, fashe
  • Istro-Romanian: fo??
  • Romanian: fa??, fâ?ie
• Istriot: fasa
• Italian: fascia
• Navarro-Aragonese:
  • Aragonese: faxa
    • ? Spanish: faja
• Old French: faisse, fece
  • French: fasce (re-Latinized)
  • ? English: fess
  • ? Dutch: faas
• Old Leonese:
  • Asturian: faxa
• Old Occitan:
  • Catalan: faixa
  • Occitan: faissa
• Old Portuguese:
  • Galician: faixa
  • Portuguese: faixa
• Old Spanish:
  • Spanish: haza
• Rhaeto-Romance:
  • Friulian: fasse
• Sardinian: fàsca, fàscia, fassa
• Venetian: fasa
  • ? Cimbrian: béesa
• ? Albanian: fashë
• ? Gothic: ???????????????????????? (faskja)
• ? Koine Greek: ?????? (phaskía)
  • Greek: ?????? (faskiá)
• ? Spanish: fascia

References

• fascia in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• fascia in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• fascia in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• fascia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• fascia in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia?^[1]
• fascia in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• fascia in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fascia. Doublet of faja and haza.

Noun

fascia f (plural fascias)

1. (anatomy) fascia (a layer of loose tissue)

Further reading

• “fascia” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sa?d??/

Etymology 1

side +? -ing (“material, collection”).

Noun

siding (countable and uncountable, plural sidings)

1. (Canada, US) A building material which covers and protects the sides of a house or other building.

   Ugh. If there's one thing I can't stand it's cheesy vinyl siding.

Synonyms

• cladding (UK, NZ, AU)

Translations

Etymology 2

Verb

siding

1. present participle of side

   Whenever he hears an argument, he can't help siding with one party or the other.

Translations

Etymology 3

side +? -ing (“derivative noun, having the quality of”).

Noun

siding (plural sidings)

2. (rail transport) A second, relatively short length of track just to the side of a railroad track, joined to the main track by switches at one or both ends, used either for loading or unloading freight, storing trains or other rail vehicles; or to allow two trains on a same track to meet (opposite directions) or pass (same direction) (the latter sense is probably an American definition).
   • 1919, W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, chapter 47

     They slept where they could, sometimes in an empty truck on a siding near the station, sometimes in a cart behind a warehouse; [...]

Synonyms

(railroad side track): railroad siding, sidetrack, lay-by (UK)

Derived terms

• private siding
• reversing siding
• stabling siding

Translations

Anagrams

• digs in

Limos Kalinga

Noun

siding

1. (anatomy) mole