ligament

ligament

English

Etymology

From Middle English ligament, from Latin ligāmentum, from ligō (“tie, bind”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɪɡəmənt/

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Noun

ligament (plural ligaments)

1. (anatomy) A band of strong tissue that connects bones to other bones.
2. (figurative) That which binds or acts as a ligament.
   • Paraphrase of Daniel Webster, from his oration on Justice Joseph Story

     Justice is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.

Derived terms

• ligamental
• ligamentary
• ligamentous

Translations

band of strong tissue that holds the bones of an animal in position

Albanian: ligament m Arabic: رِبَاط‎ (ar) m (ribāṭ) Egyptian Arabic: رباط‎ m (rubāṭ) Armenian: please add this translation if you can Azerbaijani: bağ (az) Basque: please add this translation if you can Belarusian: звя́зка f (zvjázka) Bengali: লিগামেন্ট (ligamenṭô) Bulgarian: сухожи́лие (bg) n (suhožílie), лигаме́нт m (ligamént) Burmese: အရွတ် (my) (a.rwat) Catalan: lligament (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: 韌帶／韧带 (zh) (rèndài) Czech: vaz (cs) m Danish: ledbånd n Dutch: ligament (nl) n Esperanto: please add this translation if you can Estonian: side (et) Finnish: nivelside (fi) French: ligament (fr) m Georgian: კავშირი (ḳavširi), მყესი (mq̇esi) German: Band (de) n, Ligament (de) n Gothic: 𐌲𐌰𐍅𐌹𐍃𐍃 f (gawiss) Greek: σύνδεσμος (el) m (sýndesmos) Gujarati: અસ્થિબંધન (asthibandhan) Haitian Creole: ligaman Hebrew: רְצוּעָה‎ (he) f (retsu'á) Hindi: स्नायु (hi) m (snāyu), लिगामेन्ट (ligāmenṭ), पट्ठा (hi) m (paṭṭhā) Hungarian: ínszalag (hu), szalag (hu) Icelandic: liðband (is) n, band (is) n Italian: legamento (it) m, benderella f Japanese: 靭帯 (ja) (じんたい, jintai), 靱帯 (じんたい, jintai) Kazakh: байлам (bailam) Khmer: វាវ (km) (viəw) Korean: 인대(靭帶) (ko) (indae) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: bester (ku) Kyrgyz: байламта (ky) (baylamta) Lao: ເອັນ (ʼen), ສະໜາຍຸ (sa nā nyu) Latvian: saite f Lithuanian: raištis m Macedonian: лигаме́нт m (ligamént) Malay: ligamen Maori: nape Middle English: ligament Mongolian: Cyrillic: шөрмөс (mn) (šörmös), шандас (mn) (šandas) Nepali: please add this translation if you can Norwegian: Bokmål: leddbånd n Persian: رباط‎ (fa) (rebât), لیگامان‎ (ligâmân) Polish: więzadło (pl) n, wiązadło (pl) n Portuguese: ligamento (pt) m Romanian: ligament (ro) n Russian: свя́зка (ru) f (svjázka), лигаме́нт (ru) m (ligamént) Sanskrit: स्नायु (sa) f or n (snāyu) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: лига̀мент m Roman: ligàment (sh) m Slovak: väz m Slovene: vez (sl) f Spanish: ligamento (es) m Swedish: ligament (sv) n, ledband (sv) n Tagalog: gatil Tajik: пай (pay) Tatar: бәйләм (tt) (bäyläm) Thai: เอ็น (th) (en) Turkish: bağdoku (tr), ligament (tr), ligaman, bağ (tr) Ukrainian: зв'я́зка f (zvʺjázka) Urdu: رباط‎ (ribāt) Uyghur: سىڭىر‎ (si'ngir) Uzbek: boylam (uz) Vietnamese: dây chằng (vi) Welsh: gewyn m

See also

• sinew
• tendon

Anagrams

• tegminal

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ligāmentum, from ligō (“tie, bind”). Cf. also liement, possibly an inherited doublet.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /li.ɡa.mɑ̃/

• Audio

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Noun

ligament m (plural ligaments)

1. ligament

Related terms

• lier

Further reading

• “ligament”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Middle English

Alternative forms

• lygament

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ligāmentum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /liˈɡaːmɛnt/, /ˈliɡamɛnt/

Noun

ligament (plural ligamentes)

1. A ligament or similar connecting tissue (e.g. a tendon)
2. (rare) That which binds.

Descendants

• English: ligament

References

• “ligā̆ment, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

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Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French ligament, itself a borrowing from Latin ligāmentum, from ligō (“tie, bind”). Compare legământ, an inherited doublet.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [li.ɡaˈment]

Noun

ligament n (plural ligamente)

1. ligament

Declension

Declension of ligament

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) ligament	ligamentul	(niște) ligamente	ligamentele
genitive/dative	(unui) ligament	ligamentului	(unor) ligamente	ligamentelor
vocative	ligamentule		ligamentelor