different between pledget vs sindon

English

Etymology

English dialect word for a small plug, using -et (“diminutive suffix”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pl?.d??t/

Noun

pledget (plural pledgets)

1. (medicine) A small flat absorbent pad of cotton or wool, used to medicate, drain, or protect a wound or sore.
2. A string of oakum used in calking.

Translations

Verb

pledget (third-person singular simple present pledgets, present participle pledgeting or pledgetting, simple past and past participle pledgeted or pledgetted)

1. (medicine, transitive) To apply a pledget to.

English

Etymology

From Latin sind?n (possibly by way of Old French syndone and sindone), from Ancient Greek ?????? (sind?n), from Late Egyptian šndy(t), from earlier šn?wt (“kilt”).

Noun

sindon (countable and uncountable, plural sindons)

1. (obsolete or historical) A fine thin linen muslin or cambric cloth.
2. (obsolete or historical) A piece of such cloth, particularly
   1. A shroud of such cloth.
   2. (ecclesiastical) The shroud of Jesus following the crucifixion.
   3. (ecclesiastical) The corporal: the cloth placed beneath the eucharist.
   4. A garment or wrapper of such cloth.
      • 1626, Francis Bacon, New Atlantis, 10:

        There were found in it a Book, and a Letter; Both […] wrapped in Sindons of Linnen.

   5. (medicine) A wad, roll, or pledget of such cloth, usually doused with medicine, used to fill open wounds during surgery.

Derived terms

• sindonless
• sindonology

References

Anagrams

• Indons

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ?????? (sind?n).

Noun

sind?n f (genitive sind??nis); third declension

1. muslin

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Descendants

• Italian: sindone

References

• sindon in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• sindon in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• sindon in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

Old English

Verb

sindon

1. present indicative plural of wesan