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

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

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• Rhymes: -æʃə

fascia (plural fascias or fasciae or fasciæ)

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.

    • 2018 November 8, Dr. Melina Jampolis, “The real science behind fascia ailments”, in CNN‎^[1]:

      The superficial fascia surrounds the body and includes subcutaneous fat; the deep fascia surrounds the musculoskeletal system; the meningeal fascia surrounds the nervous system; the visceral fascia surrounds body cavities and organs.

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

The plural fascias is the one usually used in English for most senses; the plural fasciae may sometimes be encountered, especially for the anatomical sense 8.

• AFAICS, facias

Inherited from Latin fascia. Compare Spanish haza, Portuguese faixa, Romanian fașă.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfaʃ.ʃa/^[1]
• Homophone: Fascia
• Rhymes: -aʃʃa
• Hyphenation: fà‧scia

fascia f (plural fasce)

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

• bandana

• Caifas, fiasca, scafai

See fascis.

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

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]

First-declension noun.

• fasciō
• fasciola

• Eastern Romance:
  • Aromanian: fashi, fashe
  • Istro-Romanian: foşă
  • Romanian: fașă, fâșie
• Northern Italian:
  • Romagnol: fasa
• Istriot: fasa
• Italian: fascia
• Old Navarro-Aragonese:
  • Aragonese: faixa
    • → 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

• “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^[2]
• “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 haz.

fascia f (plural fascias)

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

• “fascia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024