bane

English

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Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪn

Etymology 1

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

Noun

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

• (affliction or curse): boon

Derived terms

• baneberry
• baneful
• boon and bane
• wolfsbane

Translations

killer — see killer

source of harm or ruin; affliction

• Bulgarian: зло (bg) (zlo), напаст (bg) (napast)
• Danish: bane (da)
• Dutch: verderf n
• Finnish: riesa (fi), kirous (fi), vaikeus (fi)
• German: Ruin (de) m, Verderben (de) n

• Italian: rovina (it) f, flagello (it) m, piaga (it) f
• Norwegian: bane (no) m
• Portuguese: desgraça (pt) f
• Spanish: desgracia (es) f, maldición (es) f, ruina (es) f, perdición (es) f

Verb

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

to (kill by) poison — see poison

to be the poison of

• Spanish: envenenar (es), intoxicar (es)

to be the bane of

• Dutch: verderven (nl), ruïneren (nl)
• Norwegian: bane (no) m

• Spanish: maldecir (es)

Etymology 2

From Middle English northern dialect ban, from Old English bān

Noun

bane (plural banes)

1. (chiefly Scotland) A bone

References

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

Anagrams

• bean
• Bena

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Dutch

Verb

bane

1. singular present subjunctive of banen

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Manx

Etymology

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

Adjective

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

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.

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Norwegian

Noun

bane

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

Inflection

    Inflection of bane

	indefinite singular	definite singular	indefinite plural	definite plural
Bokmål m	bane	baneen	banee	banene
Nynorsk m	bane	banen	banar	banane
Nynorsk f	bane [bana]	bana	baner [banor]	banene [banone]

Noun

bane

1. A death (by murder)