fascia

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

• 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

Noun

fascia f (plural fasce)

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

Anagrams

• fiasca

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Latin

Etymology

See fascis.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈfas.ki.a/

Noun

fascia f (genitive fasciae); first declension

1. band, bandage, swathe, strip, ribbon

Inflection

First declension.

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:
  • Portuguese: faixa
• Old Spanish:
  • Spanish: haza
• Rhaeto-Romance:
  • Friulian: fasse
• Sardinian: fàsca, fàscia, fassa
• Venetian: fasa
• → Albanian: fashë, fasho
• → English: fess
• → 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.