splint
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
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Etymology: From Middle English splint, splent, splente, from Middle Low German splinte, splente or Middle Dutch splint, splinte. Cognate with Old High German splinza (“bar, bolt, latch”). All ultimately from Proto-Germanic *splintǭ, *splintō (“piece of wood, splinter”), from Proto-Germanic *splint-, *splind- (“to split”), from a nasalized form of *splītaną (“to split”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pley- (“to split, splice”).
Inflected forms:
form: splints
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: splints
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: splinting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: splinted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: splinted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A narrow strip of wood split or peeled from a larger piece.
pos: noun
gloss: A narrow strip of wood split or peeled from a larger piece.
pos: noun
tags: West-Midlands
gloss: A dental device applied consequent to undergoing orthodontia.
pos: noun
gloss: A device to immobilize a body part.
pos: noun
examples: [...] I saw in the white men's ward that little chap tossing on his back, with his arm in splints, and quite light-headed.
gloss: A segment of armour consisting of a narrow overlapping plate.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: The fore-part of his thighs, where the folds of his mantle permitted them to be seen, were also covered with linked mail; the knees and feet were defended by splints, or thin plates of steel, ingeniously jointed upon each other; and mail hose, reaching from the ancle to the knee, effectually protected the legs, and completed the rider's defensive armour.
gloss: Synonym of splent coal.
pos: noun
gloss: A bone found on either side of a horse's cannon bone; the second or fourth metacarpal (forelimb) or metatarsal (hindlimb) bone.
pos: noun
gloss: A disease affecting the splint bones, as a callosity or hard excrescence.
pos: noun
gloss: To apply a splint to; to fasten with splints.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To support one's abdomen with hands or a pillow before attempting to cough.
pos: verb
gloss: To press fingers against the vaginal wall to ease defecation.
pos: verb
gloss: To split into thin, slender pieces; to splinter.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
rare
transitive
Derived words: coaptation splint
Frejka splint
shin splint
splintage
splint bone
splint coal
splinter
splintless
splintlike
splintwork
nonsplinted
nonsplinting
splintable
unsplinted
Translations:
lang: Albanian
word: ashkël
lang: Bulgarian
word: тънка ивица
roman: tǎnka ivica
lang: Bulgarian
word: лента
roman: lenta
lang: Catalan
word: fèrula
lang: Finnish
word: säle
lang: French
word: éclisse
lang: Galician
word: tala
lang: Hungarian
word: gyújtópálca
lang: Irish
word: spliota
lang: Irish
word: meathán (in basketweaving)
lang: Italian
word: scheggia
lang: Italian
word: scaglia
lang: Italian
word: frammento
lang: Italian
word: stecca
lang: Japanese
word: 添木
roman: soegi
lang: Latvian
word: skaida
lang: Middle English
word: splente
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: splint
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: flis
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: splint
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: flis
lang: Portuguese
word: férula
lang: Portuguese
word: tala
lang: Romanian
word: așchie
lang: Russian
word: щепа́
roman: ščepá
lang: Russian
word: ще́пка
roman: ščépka
lang: Russian
word: дра́нка
roman: dránka
lang: Russian
word: лы́ко
roman: lýko
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: и̏вер
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: тре̏ска
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: ȉver
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: trȅska
lang: Slovak
word: latka
lang: Afrikaans
word: spalk
lang: Bulgarian
word: ши́на
roman: šína
lang: Catalan
word: fèrula
lang: Czech
word: dlaha
lang: Dutch
word: spalk
lang: Finnish
word: lasta
lang: French
word: attelle
lang: Galician
word: férula
lang: German
word: Schiene
lang: German
word: Gipsschiene
lang: Ancient Greek
word: νάρθηξ
roman: nárthēx
lang: Hebrew
word: סד
roman: sad
lang: Hungarian
word: sín
lang: Icelandic
word: spelka
lang: Indonesian
word: bidai
lang: Italian
word: stecca
lang: Italian
word: tutore
lang: Japanese
word: スプリント
roman: supurinto
lang: Latin
word: serperastrum
lang: Lithuanian
word: įtvaras
lang: Māori
word: tāhū
lang: Middle English
word: splente
lang: Norwegian
word: spjelke
lang: Polish
word: szyna
lang: Portuguese
word: tala
lang: Romanian
word: atelă
lang: Russian
word: ши́на
roman: šína
lang: Russian
word: лубо́к
roman: lubók
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: у̏длага
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: ȕdlaga
lang: Slovak
word: dlaha
lang: Spanish
word: férula
lang: Spanish
word: tablilla
lang: Swedish
word: skena
lang: Tagalog
word: balangkat
lang: Turkish
word: atel
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: تخته
roman: tahta
lang: Ukrainian
word: ши́на
roman: šýna
lang: Vietnamese
word: nẹp