bane

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English [edit]

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Pronunciation [edit]

Etymology 1 [edit]

Middle English, from Old English bana; akin to Old High German bano (death).

Noun [edit]

bane (plural banes)

  1. A cause of misery or death; an affliction or curse
    the bane of my existence
    • Herbert
      Money, thou bane of bliss, and source of woe.
  2. (dated) Poison, especially any of several poisonous plants
  3. (obsolete) A killer, murderer, slayer
  4. (obsolete) destruction; death
    • Milton
      The cup of deception spiced and tempered to their bane.
  5. A disease of sheep; the rot.
Antonyms [edit]
  • (affliction or curse): boon
Derived terms [edit]
Translations [edit]

Verb [edit]

bane (third-person singular simple present banes, present participle baning, simple past and past participle baned)

  1. (transitive) To kill, especially by poison; to be the poison of.
  2. (transitive) To be the bane of.
Translations [edit]

Etymology 2 [edit]

From Middle English northern dialect ban, from Old English bān

Noun [edit]

bane (plural banes)

  1. (chiefly Scotland) A bone

References [edit]

  • Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967

Anagrams [edit]


Dutch [edit]

Verb [edit]

bane

  1. singular present subjunctive of banen

Manx [edit]

Etymology [edit]

From Old Irish bán, from Proto-Celtic *bānos (white).

Adjective [edit]

bane (comparative, superlative and plural baney)

  1. white, blank, pallid
    • Er cabbyl bane va mee.
      • My mount was a white horse.
    • Haink daah bane yn aggle er.
      • He blanched with fear.
  2. fair, blonde
    • Shen Illiam Bane.
      • That's fair-haired William.
  3. fallow
    • Faag y magher bane.
      • Leave the field lea.

Mutation [edit]

Manx mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
bane vane mane
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Norwegian [edit]

Noun [edit]

bane

  1. A trajectory
  2. A railway line
  3. A sports field.
  4. A racing track.

Inflection [edit]

Noun [edit]

bane

  1. A death (by murder)