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English

Noun

fascias

1. plural of fascia

Latin

Noun

fasci?s

1. accusative plural of fascia

Spanish

Noun

fascias

1. plural of fascia

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.