ligament

English

Etymology

From Middle English ligament, from Latin ligāmentum, from ligō (“tie, bind”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɪɡəmənt/

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Noun

ligament (plural ligaments)

1. (anatomy) A band of strong tissue that connects bones to other bones.
2. (figuratively) That which binds or acts as a ligament.
   • Paraphrase of Daniel Webster, from his oration on Justice Joseph Story

     Justice is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.

Derived terms

• ligamental
• ligamentary
• ligamentous

Translations

band of strong tissue that holds the bones of an animal in position

• Albanian: ligament m
• Arabic: رِبَاط‎ m (ribāṭ)

  Egyptian Arabic: رباط‎ m (rubāṭ)

• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Basque: please add this translation if you can
• Belarusian: звя́зка f (zvjázka)
• Bengali: লিগামেন্ট (ligamenṭ)
• Bulgarian: сухожилие (bg) n (suhožilie)
• Catalan: lligament (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 韌帶 (zh), 韧带 (zh) (rèndài)

• Czech: vaz (cs) m
• Danish: ledbånd n
• Dutch: ligament (nl) n
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Estonian: side (et)
• Finnish: nivelside (fi)
• French: ligament (fr) m
• Georgian: კავშირი (ḳavširi), მყესი (mq̇esi)
• German: Band (de) n, Ligament (de) n
• Greek: σύνδεσμος (el) m (sýndesmos)
• Gujarati: અસ્થિબંધન (asthibandhan)
• Haitian Creole: ligaman
• Hebrew: רְצוּעָה‎ (he) f (r'tsu'a)
• Hindi: स्नायु (hi) m (snāyu), लिगामेन्ट (ligāmenṭ)
• Hungarian: ínszalag (hu), szalag (hu)
• Icelandic: liðband (is) n, band (is) n
• Italian: legamento (it) m, benderella f
• Japanese: 靭帯 (ja) (じんたい, jintai), 靱帯 (じんたい, jintai)
• Kazakh: байлам (bailam)
• Khmer: វាវ (km) (viəw)
• Korean: 인대(靭帶) (ko) (indae)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: bester (ku)

• Kyrgyz: байламта (ky) (baylamta)
• Lao: ເອັນ (ʼen), ສະໜາຍຸ (sa nā nyu)
• Latvian: saite f
• Lithuanian: raištis m
• Macedonian: лигамент m (ligament)
• Malay: ligamen
• Maori: nape
• Middle English: ligament
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Nepali: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: leddbånd n

• Persian: رباط‎ (fa) (rebât), لیگامان‎ (ligâmân)
• Polish: więzadło (pl) n, wiązadło (pl) n
• Portuguese: ligamento (pt) m
• Romanian: ligament (ro) n
• Russian: свя́зка (ru) f (svjázka)
• Sanskrit: स्नायु (sa) f or n (snāyu)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: лига̀мент m

  Roman: ligàment (sh) m

• Slovak: väz m
• Slovene: vez (sl) f
• Spanish: ligamento (es) m
• Swedish: ligament (sv) n, ledband (sv) n
• Tagalog: gatil
• Thai: เอ็น (th) (en)
• Turkish: bağdoku (tr)
• Ukrainian: зв'я́зка f (zvʺjázka)
• Urdu: رباط‎ (ribāt)
• Uzbek: boylam (uz)
• Vietnamese: dây chằng (vi)
• Welsh: gewyn m

See also

• sinew
• tendon

Anagrams

• tegminal

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ligāmentum, from ligō (“tie, bind”). Cf. also liement, possibly an inherited doublet.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /li.ɡa.mɑ̃/

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Noun

ligament m (plural ligaments)

1. ligament

Related terms

• lier

Further reading

• “ligament”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Middle English

Alternative forms

• lygament

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ligāmentum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /liˈɡaːmɛnt/, /ˈliɡamɛnt/

Noun

ligament (plural ligamentes)

1. A ligament or similar connecting tissue (e.g. a tendon)
2. (rare) That which binds.

Descendants

• English: ligament

References

• “ligā̆ment, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

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Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French ligament, itself a borrowing from Latin ligāmentum, from ligō (“tie, bind”). Compare legământ, an inherited doublet.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [li.ɡaˈment]

Noun

ligament n (plural ligamente)

1. ligament

Declension

Declension of ligament

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) ligament	ligamentul	(niște) ligamente	ligamentele
genitive/dative	(unui) ligament	ligamentului	(unor) ligamente	ligamentelor
vocative	ligamentule		ligamentelor