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 *bʰask- (“bundle, band”). Cognate with fajita, fess, and fascism.

Pronunciation

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

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• 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. (UK) 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

12. (anatomy) The layer of loose tissue, often containing fat, immediately beneath the skin; the stronger layer of connective tissue covering and investing muscles and organs; an aponeurosis.
    • 2006, Dennis E. McDonnell, Steven J. Harrison, “10: Retropharyngeal Approach to the Occipitocervical Junction”, in Richard G. Fessler, Laligam N. Sekhar, editors, Atlas of Neurosurgical Techniques: Spine and Peripheral Nerves, Thieme Medical Publishers, page 89:

      The deepest layer of cervical fascia consists of two main subdivisions: the alar and prevertebral fasciae.

    • 2017, David Lesondak, Fascia: What it is and Why it Matters, Handspring Publishing, page 3,

      Figure 1.1
      Close-up of the fascia surrounding a muscle in an unembalmed cadaver.

    • 2017, Andrea Pasini, Antonio Stecco, Carla Stecco, 19: Fascial Anatomy of the Viscera, Torsten Liem, Paolo Tozzi, Anthony Chila (editors), Fascia in the Osteopathic Field, Handspring Publishing, page 173,

      This is evidence that the insertional fasciae are the ones that provide the connections between internal fasciae and muscular fascia, and between the different organs. The same pattern can be applied to the fasciae that surround the glands.

13. The signboard above a shop or other location open to the public.

Usage notes

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

Derived terms

• Abernethy's fascia
• Buck's fascia
• fascia adherens
• fascia bulbi
• fascial
• fascia lata
• fasciate
• fasciitis
• plantar fascia
• superficial fascia
• transversalis fascia

 

Translations

band of material covering the ends of roof rafters

• Bulgarian: корниз (bg) (korniz)
• Dutch: boeiboord (nl) n, boeideel n
• 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
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 筋膜 (jīnmó)

• Czech: povázka f, fascie f
• Finnish: kalvo (fi); ihonalaiskudos (fi) (loose, fatty issue under skin), sidekalvo (connective tissue covering muscles), kalvojänne (aponeurosis), peitinkalvo (fi), faskia (fi)
• German: Faszie (de) f
• Hungarian: bőnye (hu)
• Kazakh: шандыр (şandyr)
• Portuguese: fáscia f
• Russian: фа́сция (ru) f (fáscija)
• Spanish: fascia f
• Swedish: fascia (sv) c
• Turkish: fasya

dashboard — see dashboard

Anagrams

• AFAICS, facias

Italian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

fascia f (plural fasce)

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

See also

• bandana

Anagrams

• Caifas, fiasca, scafai

Latin

Etymology

See fascis.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈfas.ki.a/, [ˈfäs̠kiä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈfaʃ.ʃi.a/, [ˈfäʃːiä]

Noun

fascia f (genitive fasciae); first declension

1. band, bandage, swathe, strip, ribbon
2. (New Latin) necktie
   • 2003, J. K. Rowling, translated by Peter Needham, Harrius Potter et Philosophi Lapis, London: Bloomsbury, translation of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, page 2:

     Dominus Dursley bombiebat dum fasciam hebetissimi coloris eligebat idoneam ad negotia gerenda

     [original: Mr Dursley hummed as he picked out his most boring tie for work]

Declension

First-declension noun.

	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
• Northern Italian:
  • Romagnol: fasa
• 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, facha, faza
• Old Occitan:
  • Catalan: faixa
  • Occitan: faissa
• Old Galician-Portuguese:
  • Galician: faixa
  • Portuguese: faixa
• Old Spanish:
  • Spanish: haza
• Rhaeto-Romance:
  • Friulian: fasse
• Sardinian: fàsca, fàscia, fassa
• Venetan: fasa
  • → Cimbrian: béesa
• → Albanian: fashë
• → Gothic: 𐍆𐌰𐍃𐌺𐌾𐌰 (faskja)
• → Koine Greek: φασκία (phaskía)
  • Greek: φασκιά (faskiá)
• → Middle High German: fasch, fasche
  • German: Fasche
• → Spanish: fascia
• → German: Fatsche
  • → Czech: fáč

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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 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

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fascia. Doublet of faja and haz.

Noun

fascia f (plural fascias)

1. (anatomy) fascia (a layer of loose tissue)

Further reading

• “fascia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28