splint

See also: Splint, and şplint

English

Etymology

Wrist splint

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”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /splɪnt/

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• Rhymes: -ɪnt

Noun

splint (plural splints)

1. A narrow strip of wood split or peeled from a larger piece.
   1. (Cheshire, West Midlands) A splinter caught in the skin.
2. (dentistry) A dental device applied consequent to undergoing orthodontia.
3. (medicine) A device to immobilize a body part.
   • 1899 September – 1900 July, Joseph Conrad, chapter V, in Lord Jim: A Tale, Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood and Sons, published 1900, →OCLC, pages 50–51:

     [...] I saw in the white men's ward that little chap tossing on his back, with his arm in splints, and quite light-headed.

4. (military, historical) A segment of armour consisting of a narrow overlapping plate.
   • 1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, chapter II, in Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC, page 25:

     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.

5. (mining) Synonym of splent coal
6. (zootomy) A bone found on either side of a horse's cannon bone; the second or fourth metacarpal (forelimb) or metatarsal (hindlimb) bone.
7. (zootomy, veterinary medicine) A disease affecting the splint bones, as a callosity or hard excrescence.

Usage notes

• For a horse to pop a splint is for it to receive an injury to the splint bone or surrounding area.

Derived terms

• coaptation splint
• Frejka splint
• shin splint
• splint bone
• splint coal
• splinter

 

Translations

narrow strip of wood

• Albanian: ashkël (sq) f
• Bulgarian: тънка ивица f (tǎnka ivica), лента (bg) f (lenta)
• Finnish: säle (fi)
• French: éclisse (fr) f
• Galician: tala f
• Hungarian: gyújtópálca
• Irish: spliota m, meathán m (in basketweaving)
• Italian: scheggia (it) f, scaglia (it) f, frammento (it) m
• Japanese: 添木 (soegi)
• Latvian: skaida f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: splint m, flis m or f

  Nynorsk: splint m, flis f

• Russian: щепа́ (ru) f (ščepá), ще́пка (ru) f (ščépka), дра́нка (ru) f (dránka), лы́ко (ru) n (lýko)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: и̏вер m, тре̏ска f

  Roman: ȉver (sh) m, trȅska (sh) f, ^{(please verify)} trijéska (sh) f

• Slovak: latka f

immobilizing device

• Afrikaans: spalk
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• Bulgarian: ши́на f (šína)
• Catalan: fèrula (ca) f
• Czech: dlaha (cs) f
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• Dutch: spalk (nl) f
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• Finnish: lasta (fi)
• French: attelle (fr) f
• Galician: férula f
• German: Schiene (de), Gipsschiene
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  Ancient: νάρθηξ m (nárthēx)

• Hebrew: סד (he) m (sad)
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• Hungarian: sín (hu)
• Icelandic: spelka f
• Indonesian: bidai (id)
• Italian: stecca (it) f, tutore (it) m
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• Latin: serperastrum n
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• Maori: tāhū
• Ottoman Turkish: تخته (tahta)
• Polish: szyna (pl) f
• Portuguese: tala (pt) f
• Romanian: atelă (ro) f
• Russian: ши́на (ru) f (šína), лубо́к (ru) m (lubók)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: у̏длага f

  Roman: ȕdlaga (sh) f, ^{(please verify)} šȉna (sh) f

• Slovak: dlaha (sk) f
• Spanish: férula (es) f
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• Swedish: skena (sv) c
• Tagalog: balangkat
• Turkish: atel (tr)
• Ukrainian: ши́на (uk) f (šýna) (медична)
• Vietnamese: nẹp (vi)
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dental device

• Bulgarian: ши́на f (šína)
• German: Protrusionsschiene
• Italian: protesi (it) f

segment of armor

• Finnish: levy (fi)
• Italian: lamella (it) f, piastra (it) f

bone of a horse

• Bulgarian: надкостница f (nadkostnica)
• Finnish: puikkoluu
• Italian: soprosso m, schinella f, spinella f, esostosi f

Verb

splint (third-person singular simple present splints, present participle splinting, simple past and past participle splinted)

1. (transitive) To apply a splint to; to fasten with splints.
2. To support one's abdomen with hands or a pillow before attempting to cough.
3. (obsolete, rare, transitive) To split into thin, slender pieces; to splinter.

Translations

apply splint

• Bulgarian: шинирам (šiniram)
• Dutch: spalken (nl)
• Finnish: lastoittaa (fi)
• Russian: накла́дывать ши́ну (nakládyvatʹ šínu)
• Spanish: entablillar (es)
• Ukrainian: накла́дати ши́ну impf (nakládaty šýnu), накла́сти ши́ну pf (naklásty šýnu)

Swedish

Noun

splint c

1. sapwood

   Synonyms: splintved, vitved, ytved

Declension

Declension of splint

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	splint	splints
	definite	splinten	splintens
plural	indefinite	—	—
	definite	—	—

See also

• kärnved (“heartwood”)

References

• splint in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• splint in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)