Mask

Table of contents

1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Noun 1.2.1 Translations 1.2.2 Derived expressions 1.3 Transitive verb 1.3.1 Translations 1.4 Intransitive verb 2 Swedish 2.1 Noun 2.1.1 Conjugations 2.1.2 Derived terms 2.2 Noun 2.2.1 Conjugations 2.2.2 Derived terms

English

Etymology

French masque, Late Latin masca , mascha , mascus ; compare Spanish and Portuguese máscara, Italian maschera , German Maske ; all from Arabic maskharat buffoon, fool, pleasantry, anything ridiculous or mirthful, from sakhira to ridicule, to laugh at. Compare masque, masquerade

Noun

1. A cover, or partial cover, for the face, used for disguise or protection; as, a dancer's mask; a fencer's mask; a ball player's mask.
2. That which disguises; a pretext or subterfuge.
3. A festive entertainment of dancing or other diversions, where all wear masks; a masquerade; hence, a revel; a frolic; a delusive show - Bacon

   Quotations

   • This thought might lead me through the world's vain mask - Milton

4. A dramatic performance, formerly in vogue, in which the actors wore masks and represented mythical or allegorical characters.
5. (Architecture): A grotesque head or face, used to adorn keystones and other prominent parts, to spout water in fountains, and the like; -- called also mascaron .
6. (Fortification) In a permanent fortification, a redoubt which protects the caponiere.
7. (Fortification): A screen for a battery
8. (Zoology): The lower lip of the larva of a dragon fly, modified so as to form a prehensile organ.

Translations

• mask (1,2), maskerad (3)

Derived expressions

• Mask house, (Obsolete), a house for masquerades

Transitive verb

Imperfect and past participle: Masked
Present participle: Masking

1. To cover, as the face, by way of concealment or defense against injury; to conceal with a mask or visor.

   Quotations

   • They must all be masked and vizarded - Shakespeare, Merry Wives of Windsor, IV,vi

2. To disguise; to cover; to hide.

   Quotations

   • Masking the business from the common eye - Shakespeare, Macbeth, III-i

3. (Military): To conceal; also, to intervene in the line of.
4. (Military): To cover or keep in check; as, to mask a body of troops or a fortess by a superior force, while some hostile evolution is being carried out

Translations

• Swedish: maskera (1,2,4)

Intransitive verb

1. To take part as a masker in a masquerade - Cavendish
2. To wear a mask; to be disguised in any way - Shakespeare

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Swedish

Noun

mask

1. worm

Conjugations

Common
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	mask	maskar	masken	maskarna
Genitive	masks	maskars	maskens	maskarnas

Derived terms

• daggmask

Noun

mask

1. mask; a cover designed to disguise or protect the face

Conjugations

Common
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	mask	masker	masken	maskerna
Genitive	masks	maskers	maskens	maskernas

Derived terms

• maskera
• maskerad
• maskering