tampon
English
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Etymology
[edit]First attested in 1848. Borrowed from French tampon, from Middle French tampion, a nasalised variant of tapon, a diminutive or augmented form of Old French tape (“plug, bung, tap”), from Frankish *tappo (“stopper, plug”), from Proto-Germanic *tappô (“plug, tap”). Cognate with Old High German zapfo (“stopper”), Old English tæppa (“stopper”). More at tap.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): [ˈtʰæmpɒn]
Audio (Southern England): (file) - (General American) IPA(key): [ˈtʰæmpɑn]
- Rhymes: -æmpɑn
Noun
[edit]tampon (plural tampons)
- A plug of cotton or other absorbent material inserted into a body cavity or wound to absorb fluid, especially one inserted in the vagina during menstruation.
- 1988, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Nervous Conditions, Faber & Faber Limited (2021), page 145:
- I examined a tampon, from the outside only without removing the wrapper because I did not want to waste one, and considered aloud the consequences of pushing the offensively shaped object into my vagina.
- A double-headed drumstick primarily for the bass drum.
- An inking pad used in lithographic printing.
Synonyms
[edit]- (intravaginal plug used to absorb menstrual blood): vampire's teabag (slang)
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Verb
[edit]tampon (third-person singular simple present tampons, present participle tamponing or tamponning, simple past and past participle tamponed or tamponned)
- (medicine, transitive) To plug (a wound) with a tampon or compress.
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[edit]French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Nasalized variant of tapon, from Frankish *tappō, from Proto-Germanic *tappô (“plug, tap”), cognate with Dutch tappe, German Zapfen, Old English tæppa, English tap.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]tampon m (plural tampons)
- plug, stopper
- un tampon de bois ― a wooden stopper
- (medicine) swab
- 1932, Jules Romains, Hommes de bonne volonté:
- Il monta chercher dans sa chambre, au premier étage, un petit tampon d’ouate; puis, comme le sang était sec et collait à la porcelaine, il humecta légèrement le coton avant de frotter.
- He went up to his room on the first floor to look for a small ball of cotton wool; then, since the blood was dry and stuck to the porcelain, he moistened the cotton slightly before rubbing.
- tampon (menstrual product)
- tampon hygiénique ― tampon
- sponge, pad (piece of porous material)
- used for washing
- tampon à récurer ― scourer, scouring pad
- to varnish or apply wax to a piece of furniture
- vernissage au tampon ― French polishing
- to apply ink
- tampon encreur ― ink pad
- used for washing
- stamp
- (figuratively) mitigator, mediator, buffer between people having a dispute
- jouer le rôle de tampon ― to act as a buffer
- In this sense, often used in apposition, such as in solution tampon, État tampon, zone tampon, etc.
- Cette zone accueillerait une partie des 3,6 millions de réfugiés syriens et ferait office de zone tampon avec la Syrie.
- (please add an English translation of this usage example)
- (chemistry) buffer
- solution tampon ― buffer solution
- (computing) buffer
- (rail transport) buffer
Synonyms
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[edit]Descendants
[edit]- English: tampon
- German: Tampon
- Dutch: tampon
- Italian: tampone
- Japanese: タンポン (tanpon)
- Korean: 탐폰 (tampon)
- Portuguese: tampão
- Russian: тампо́н (tampón)
- Spanish: tampón
References
[edit]- Etymology and history of “tapon”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Polish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French tampon, from Middle French tampion, a nasalised variant of tapon, a diminutive or augmented form of Old French tape (“plug, bung, tap”), from Frankish *tappo (“stopper, plug”), from Proto-Germanic *tappô (“plug, tap”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]tampon m inan (diminutive tamponik)
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[edit]- tampon in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Romanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]tampon n (plural tampoane)
Declension
[edit]singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) tampon | tamponul | (niște) tampoane | tampoanele |
genitive/dative | (unui) tampon | tamponului | (unor) tampoane | tampoanelor |
vocative | tamponule | tampoanelor |
Serbo-Croatian
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[edit]Noun
[edit]tàmpōn m (Cyrillic spelling та̀мпо̄н)
Declension
[edit]- English terms borrowed from French
- English terms derived from French
- English terms derived from Middle French
- English terms derived from Old French
- English terms derived from Frankish
- English terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
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- Rhymes:English/æmpɑn
- Rhymes:English/æmpɑn/2 syllables
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- en:Medicine
- English transitive verbs
- en:Menstruation
- French terms derived from Frankish
- French terms derived from Proto-Germanic
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- French nouns
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- fr:Music
- fr:Nautical
- fr:Medicine
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- fr:Chemistry
- fr:Computing
- fr:Rail transportation
- Polish terms borrowed from French
- Polish terms derived from French
- Polish terms derived from Middle French
- Polish terms derived from Old French
- Polish terms derived from Frankish
- Polish terms derived from Proto-Germanic
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- Rhymes:Polish/ampɔn
- Rhymes:Polish/ampɔn/2 syllables
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- Polish inanimate nouns
- pl:Medicine
- pl:Menstruation
- Romanian terms borrowed from French
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- Romanian lemmas
- Romanian nouns
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- Serbo-Croatian terms with IPA pronunciation
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- Serbo-Croatian nouns
- Serbo-Croatian masculine nouns