fascia

See also: fàscia

English

Pope Benedict XVI wearing a white fascia, while a cardinal is seated near him (partially obscured from view) wearing a red fascia (sense 7).

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fascia (“a band, bandage, swathe”). Related to fascēs (“bundle of rods containing an axe with the blade projecting”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰasko (“bundle, band”). Doublet of fess.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfæʃə/, /ˈfæʃjə/, /ˈfæʃi.ə/
• IPA^(key): /ˈfeɪʃə/, /ˈfeɪʃjə/, /ˈfeɪʃi.ə/ (especially sense 1)
• Rhymes: -æʃə

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

band of material covering the ends of roof rafters

• Bulgarian: корниз (bg) (korniz)
• Finnish: räystäslauta, päätylauta

• Russian: фа́сция (ru) f (fáscija)

face or front cover of an appliance

• Bulgarian: арматурно табло (armaturno tablo)

• Finnish: etulevy

architecture: one of the three bands which make up the architrave

• Finnish: palkki (fi)

broad well-defined band of color

• Bulgarian: полоса f (polosa)
• Finnish: raita (fi), väriraita

• Russian: полоса́ (ru) f (polosá), поло́ска (ru) f (polóska)

band, sash, or fillet

• Bulgarian: лента (bg) f (lenta), бинт m (bint)
• Finnish: nauha (fi)

• Russian: поясо́к (ru) m (pojasók), ле́нта (ru) f (lénta), бинт (ru) m (bint)

tissue

• Catalan: fàscia f
• Finnish: kalvo (fi); ihonalaiskudos (fi) (loose, fatty issue under skin), sidekalvo (connective tissue covering muscles), kalvojänne (aponeurosis)
• German: Faszie (de) f
• Hungarian: bőnye (hu)

• Russian: фа́сция (ru) f (fáscija)
• Spanish: fascia f
• Swedish: fascia (sv) c

dashboard — see dashboard

Usage notes

The plural fascias is used for the first five definitions while fasciae is used for the sixth.

Anagrams

• AFAICS, facias

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Italian

Etymology

From Latin fascia. Compare Spanish faja, Portuguese faixa, Romanian fașă.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfaʃ.ʃa/
• Hyphenation: fà‧scia
• Rhymes: -aʃʃa

Noun

fascia f (plural fasce)

1. strip, band
2. bandage
3. sash
4. (geography) belt
5. (heraldry) fess

See also

• bandana

Anagrams

• fiasca

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Latin

Etymology

See fascis.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈfas.ki.a/
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈfaʃ.ʃi.a/

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.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	fascia	fasciae
Genitive	fasciae	fasciārum
Dative	fasciae	fasciīs
Accusative	fasciam	fasciās
Ablative	fasciā	fasciīs
Vocative	fascia	fasciae

Derived terms

• fasciō
• fasciola

Descendants

• Eastern Romance:
  • Aromanian: fashi, fashe
  • Istro-Romanian: foşă
  • Romanian: fașă, fâșie
• 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, fashë
• → Gothic: 𐍆𐌰𐍃𐌺𐌾𐌰 (faskja)
• → Koine Greek: φασκία (phaskía)
  • Greek: φασκιά (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

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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.