WotD: band-aid/elastoplast

[muckefuck]

1. das Pflaster
2. de pleister
3. la tirita, la curita
4. la tireta
5. le pansement
6. y plastr
7. an greimlín
8. 반창고 (絆瘡膏)
9. 創可貼 chuāngkětiē

Comments

[gorkabear.livejournal.com]

I thought it came from French, too, but it's a vulgar latin word:

esparadrapo.

(Del b. lat. sparadrāpum).

1. m. Tira de tela o de papel, una de cuyas caras está cubierta de un emplasto adherente, que se usa para sujetar los vendajes, y excepcionalmente como apósito directo o como revulsivo.

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

I'm not buying this "Vulgar Latin" etymology, and neither is my man Corominas: "Se citan las formas sparadrapum y spadrapor, pero son reflejos tardíos de las formas romances." In other words, it's a mediaeval Latinisation of the Italian word cited above.

Here's the basic problem with it: We have the 15th-century Italian form sparadrappo. If this comes from sparadrapum, then what's the origin of the geminate p? The expected outcome of Vulgar Latin sparadrapum would be *sparadrapo (or *esparadrabo in Spanish), but that's not what we find.

[gorkabear.livejournal.com]

Do you realize you're proving the RAE bad?
I love that!!!!

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

Every time they give me an etymology, I crosscheck it in the GREC (if there's a cognate) or Corominas (which means running across the hall). Half the time, they don't even bother.

[gorkabear.livejournal.com]

Did you know that part of my taxes go to these people? Of course there would be worse people to give money to, like the church, but it's quite disturbing.

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

Dude, don't even talk to me about that! At least 4% of my tax dollar is spent simply on servicing the debt for past military expenditures. If I could, I'd much rather have that go to even a mediocre cultural institution.

[gorkabear.livejournal.com]

Oh, our budget in the army is below 1%, but they're also quite bad.
I think the thing that would hurt me more is paying what you pay not to have socialized medicine, though