tampon
English edit
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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French edit
Etymology edit
Nasalized variant of tapon, from Frankish *tappo, 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
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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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Further reading 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 edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
tàmpōn m (Cyrillic spelling та̀мпо̄н)