fasciola

See also: Fasciola

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fasciola.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /fəˈsiː.əl.ə/, /fəˈsaɪ.əl.ə/

Noun

fasciola (plural fasciolae)

1. (anatomy) A band of grey matter bordering the fimbria in the brain; the dentate convolution.
   • 1883, Burt Green Wilder, On the Brain of a Cat Lacking the Callosum, Preliminary Notics:

     The last-named portion is shaded with lines to indicate that it retreats; it embraces parts of the fasciola and lyra

References

“fasciola”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Latin

Etymology

From fascia (“band, bandage, swathe”) +‎ -ola (feminine diminutive suffix).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /fasˈki.o.la/, [fäs̠ˈkiɔɫ̪ä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /faʃˈʃi.o.la/, [fäʃˈʃiːolä]

Noun

fasciola f (genitive fasciolae); first declension

1. A small bandage of the legs.

Inflection

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	fasciola	fasciolae
Genitive	fasciolae	fasciolārum
Dative	fasciolae	fasciolīs
Accusative	fasciolam	fasciolās
Ablative	fasciolā	fasciolīs
Vocative	fasciola	fasciolae

Related terms

• fascia
• fascis

Descendants

• Translingual: Fasciola
• English: fasciole
• English: fasciola
• French: fasciole
• Italian: fasciola
• Portuguese: fascíola
• Romanian: fâșioară

References

• “fasciola”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “fasciola”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• fasciola 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)
• fasciola in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.