different between fascia vs sinew

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

Etymology

From Middle English sineu, sineue, sinue (“tendon; ligament or other connective tissue; muscle; nerve; leaf vein”), from Old English seonu, sinewe, sinu (“tendon, sinew; nerve”), from Proto-West Germanic *sinu, from Proto-Germanic *sinw?, *senaw? (“sinew”), from Proto-Indo-European *sn?h?wr? (“tendon, sinew”), from *(s)neh?- (“to twist (threads), spin, weave”).

The word is cognate with sinnow (“sinew”), Scots senon, sinnon, Saterland Frisian Siene (“sinew”), West Frisian senuw, sine (“sinew; nerve”), Dutch zenuw (“nerve, sinew”), German Sehne (“tendon, sinew; cord”), Icelandic sin (“tendon”), Swedish sena (“sinew”), Avestan ????????????????????????????? (sn?uuar, “tendon, sinew”), Ancient Greek ?????? (neûron, “tendon; nerve; cord”), Latin nervus (“tendon, sinew; nerve”), Sanskrit ??????? (sn?ván, “sinew, tendon; muscle”), Tocharian B ?ñor (“sinew”). Doublet of nerve and neuron.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?s?nju?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?s?nju/
• Hyphenation: sin?ew

Noun

sinew (plural sinews)

1. (anatomy) A cord or tendon of the body.
2. A cord or string, particularly (music) as of a musical instrument.
3. (figuratively) Muscular power, muscle; nerve, nervous energy; vigor, vigorous strength.
4. (figuratively, often in the plural) That which gives strength or in which strength consists; a supporting factor or member; mainstay.
5. (anatomy, obsolete) A nerve.

Alternative forms

• sinnew

Coordinate terms

• (cord or string): twine

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

sinew (third-person singular simple present sinews, present participle sinewing, simple past and past participle sinewed)

1. (transitive) To knit together or make strong with, or as if with, sinews.

Derived terms

• unsinew

Translations

References

Further reading

• tendon on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Wenis, Wiens, Wines, sewin, swein, swine, we'ins, wenis, wines, wisen