taenia

American  

[tee-nee-uh] / ˈti ni ə /

Or tenia

noun

taeniae plural

1. Classical Antiquity. a headband or fillet.

2. Architecture. (on a Doric entablature) a fillet or band separating the frieze from the architrave.

3. Anatomy. a ribbonlike structure, as certain bands of white nerve fibers in the brain.

4. any tapeworm of the genus Taenia, parasitic in humans and other mammals.

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taenia British  

/ ˈtiːnɪə /

noun

1. (in ancient Greece) a narrow fillet or headband for the hair

2. architect the fillet between the architrave and frieze of a Doric entablature

3. anatomy any bandlike structure or part

4. any tapeworm of the genus Taenia, such as T. soleum, a parasite of man that uses the pig as its intermediate host

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• taeniae
  plural

Etymology

Origin of taenia

First recorded in 1555–65; from Latin, from Greek tainía “band, ribbon”; taenia defs. 4 is from New Latin, Latin, as above

Example Sentences

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taenia taeniae

A piece of bronze, which is fixed in the marble about the middle of the left thigh, may have served for the attachment of a metallic object, perhaps a taenia held in the left hand.

From A Catalogue of Sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum, Volume I (of 2) by Smith, A. H.

The height of the architrave, including taenia and guttae, is one module, and of the taenia, one seventh of a module.

From The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio

A portrait figure of an old man, whose head is bound with a taenia, reclines on a couch with a two-handled cup in his left hand.

From A Catalogue of Sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum, Volume I (of 2) by Smith, A. H.

On the left the remains are:—   6.Part of a female head, turned to the right, and wearing a taenia.

From A Catalogue of Sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum, Volume I (of 2) by Smith, A. H.

Sphinx on the left wears a cap enclosing most of the hair, a pendant earring, and a narrow taenia.

From A Catalogue of Sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum, Volume I (of 2) by Smith, A. H.

The capillitium is very even the taeniae closely wound, the elater-ends often furcate.

From The North American Slime-Moulds A Descriptive List of All Species of Myxomycetes Hitherto Reported from the Continent of North America, with Notes on Some Extra-Limital Species by MacBride, Thomas H. (Thomas Huston)

All the figures on the east side had metal taeniae or stephanae, the holes for the attachment of the metal being still visible.

From A Catalogue of Sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum, Volume I (of 2) by Smith, A. H.