fascina

See also: Fascina and fasciná

English

Noun

fascina

1. plural of fascinum

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Northern, Balearic, Central) [fəˈsi.nə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia, Northwestern) [faˈsi.na]

Verb

fascina

1. inflection of fascinar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Esperanto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fasˈt͡sina/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ina
• Syllabification: fas‧ci‧na

Adjective

fascina (accusative singular fascinan, plural fascinaj, accusative plural fascinajn)

1. fascinating

Further reading

• “fascina”, in Plena Ilustrita Vortaro de Esperanto [Complete Illustrated Dictionary of Esperanto], 2020, →ISBN
• “fascina”, in Reta Vortaro [Online Dictionary] (in Esperanto), 1997-2026

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fa.si.na/

Verb

fascina

1. third-person singular past historic of fasciner

Anagrams

• fianças

Italian

Etymology

Inherited from Latin fascīna. Compare French and English fascine.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /faʃˈʃi.na/
• Rhymes: -ina
• Hyphenation: fa‧scì‧na

Noun

fascina f (plural fascine)

1. faggot (bundle of sticks)
2. reap (bundle of grain)

Anagrams

• sfianca

Latin

Etymology 1

Diminutive of fascis (“bundle of wood”)

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [fasˈkiː.na]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [faʃˈʃiː.na]

Noun

fascīna f (genitive fascīnae); first declension

1. A bundle of sticks.

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	fascīna	fascīnae
genitive	fascīnae	fascīnārum
dative	fascīnae	fascīnīs
accusative	fascīnam	fascīnās
ablative	fascīnā	fascīnīs
vocative	fascīna	fascīnae

Related terms

• fascēs
• fascia
• fascis

Descendants

• Italo-Dalmatian:
  • Istriot: faseîna
  • Italian: fascina
    • → German: Faschine
      • → Russian: фаши́на (fašína)
      • → Ukrainian: фаши́на (fašýna)
• Rhaeto-Romance:
  • Friulian: fassine
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Old French: faissine
    • French: fascine (latinized and partly from Italian)
      • → English: fascine

See also

• fuscina

References

• “fascina”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "fascina", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “fascina”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Etymology 2

Adjective

fascina

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of fascinum

Portuguese

Verb

fascina

1. inflection of fascinar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French fasciner, from Latin fascinare.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fas.t͡ʃiˈna/

Verb

a fascina (third-person singular present fascinează, past participle fascinat) 1st conjugation

1. to fascinate

Conjugation

    conjugation of fascina (first conjugation, -ez- infix)

infinitive			a fascina
gerund			fascinând
past participle			fascinat
number		singular			plural
person		1st person	2nd person	3rd person	1st person	2nd person	3rd person
indicative		eu	tu	el/ea	noi	voi	ei/ele
	present	fascinez	fascinezi	fascinează	fascinăm	fascinați	fascinează
	imperfect	fascinam	fascinai	fascina	fascinam	fascinați	fascinau
	simple perfect	fascinai	fascinași	fascină	fascinarăm	fascinarăți	fascinară
	pluperfect	fascinasem	fascinaseși	fascinase	fascinaserăm	fascinaserăți	fascinaseră
subjunctive		eu	tu	el/ea	noi	voi	ei/ele
	present	să fascinez	să fascinezi	să fascineze	să fascinăm	să fascinați	să fascineze
imperative		—	tu	—	—	voi	—
	affirmative		fascinează			fascinați
	negative		nu fascina			nu fascinați

Further reading

• “fascina”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2026

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fasˈθina/ [fasˈθi.na] (Equatorial Guinea, Spain)
• IPA^(key): /faˈsina/ [faˈsi.na] (Latin America, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -ina
• Syllabification: fas‧ci‧na

Verb

fascina

1. inflection of fascinar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative