different between ligament vs linament

English

Etymology

From Middle English ligament, from Latin lig?mentum, from lig? (“tie, bind”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?l???m?nt/

Noun

ligament (plural ligaments)

1. (anatomy) A band of strong tissue that connects bones to other bones.
2. (figuratively) That which binds or acts as a ligament.
   • Paraphrase of Daniel Webster, from his oration on Justice Joseph Story

     Justice is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.

Derived terms

• ligamental
• ligamentary
• ligamentous

Translations

See also

• sinew
• tendon

Anagrams

• tegminal

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin lig?mentum, from lig? (“tie, bind”). Cf. also liement, possibly an inherited doublet.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /li.?a.m??/

Noun

ligament m (plural ligaments)

1. ligament

Related terms

• lier

Further reading

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

Middle English

Alternative forms

• lygament

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin lig?mentum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /li??a?m?nt/, /?li?am?nt/

Noun

ligament (plural ligamentes)

1. A ligament or similar connecting tissue (e.g. a tendon)
2. (rare) That which binds.

Descendants

• English: ligament

References

• “lig??ment, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French ligament, itself a borrowing from Latin lig?mentum, from lig? (“tie, bind”). Compare leg?mânt, an inherited doublet.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [li.?a?ment]

Noun

ligament n (plural ligamente)

1. ligament

Declension

English

Etymology

From Latin linamentum, from linum (“flax”).

Noun

linament (plural linaments)

1. (surgery) Lint (fine material made by scraping cotton or linen cloth, used for dressing wounds), especially when made into a tent for insertion into wounds or ulcers.

Usage notes

• Not to be confused with liniment.

References

• linament in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• inmantle, lamentin