fasciate

English

Etymology

From Latin fasciō (“to swathe or bind”).

Verb

fasciate (third-person singular simple present fasciates, present participle fasciating, simple past and past participle fasciated)

  1. (transitive) To bind.
  2. To apply fascia.

Adjective

fasciate (not comparable)

  1. Bound with a fillet, sash, or bandage.
  2. (botany) Banded or compacted together.
  3. (botany) Flattened and laterally widened.
    The stems of the garden cockscomb are often fasciate.
  4. (zoology) Broadly banded with colour.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for fasciate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Italian

Verb

fasciate

  1. second-person plural present indicative of fasciare
  2. second-person plural imperative of fasciare
  3. second-person plural present subjunctive of fasciare
  4. feminine plural of fasciato

Latin

Adjective

fasciāte

  1. vocative masculine singular of fasciātus
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