fascia

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.

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

fascia (plural fascias or fasciae)

1. (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

2. A face or front cover of an appliance, especially of a mobile phone.

   Synonym: case

3. (Britain) A dashboard.

   Synonym: dashboard

4. (architecture) A flat band or broad fillet; especially, one of the three bands that make up the architrave, in the Ionic order.
5. A broad well-defined band of color.
6. A band, sash, or fillet; especially, in surgery, a bandage or roller.
7. (ecclesiastical, fashion) A sash worn by certain members of the Catholic and Anglican churches.

   Synonym: sash

8. (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.
9. The signboard above a shop or other location open to the public.

• fascial

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

• AFAICS, facias

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

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

fascia f (plural fasce)

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

• bandana

• fiasca

See fascis.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈfas.ki.a/

fascia f (genitive fasciae); first declension

1. band, bandage, swathe, strip, ribbon

First declension.

• fasciō
• fasciola

• 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
  • → Cimbrian: béesa
• → Albanian: fashë, fasho
• → Gothic: 𐍆𐌰𐍃𐌺𐌾𐌰 (faskja)
• → Koine Greek: φασκία (phaskía)
  • Greek: φασκιά (faskiá)
• → Spanish: fascia

• 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
• 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

Borrowed from Latin fascia. Doublet of faja and haza.

fascia f (plural fascias)

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

• “fascia” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.