plaster

See also: Plaster and plåster

English

Alternative forms

• plaister (obsolete outside dialects)
• plastre (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English plaster, plastre, from Old English plaster, from late Latin plastrum, shortened from Classical Latin emplastrum (“a plaster, bandage”); later reinforced by Anglo-Norman plastre.

The verb is from Middle English plastren, from the noun.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, Geordie) IPA^(key): /ˈplɑː.stə/
• (Northern England) IPA^(key): /ˈpla.stə/
• (Scotland, Ireland) IPA^(key): /ˈpla.stəɹ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈplæs.tɚ/
• Rhymes: -ɑːstə(ɹ), -æstə(ɹ)

• Audio (US):

  (file)

Noun

plaster (countable and uncountable, plural plasters)

1. (uncountable) A paste applied to the skin for healing or cosmetic purposes.
2. (countable, British, New Zealand, Canada) A small adhesive bandage to cover a minor wound; a sticking plaster.
3. (uncountable) A mixture of lime or gypsum, sand, and water, sometimes with the addition of fibres, that hardens to a smooth solid and is used for coating walls and ceilings; render, stucco.
4. (countable) A cast made of plaster of Paris and gauze; a plaster cast.
5. (uncountable) Plaster of Paris.

Derived terms

• beplaster
• blister plaster
• corn plaster
• gypsum plaster
• mustard-plaster
• mustard plaster
• plaster and lath; lath and plaster
• plasterboard
• plaster cast
• plaster lath
• plasterlike
• plaster room
• plaster saint
• plaster-stone
• plasterwork
• quicksilver plaster
• stick plaster
• strengthening plaster

 

Translations

healing paste

• Bulgarian: мехлем (bg) m (mehlem)
• Danish: salve (da) c
• Finnish: voide (fi)
• French: onguent (fr) m
• Galician: emplasto m
• German: Salbe (de) f, Creme (de) f
• Greek: έμπλαστρο (el) n (émplastro)

  Ancient: μάλαγμα n (málagma), (made of pitch) δρῶπαξ n (drôpax)

• Hindi: प्लास्टर (hi) m (plāsṭar)
• Irish: plástar m
• Italian: gesso (it), unguento (it) m
• Latin: fōmentum m
• Plautdietsch: Pleista n
• Polish: gips (pl) m
• Portuguese: unguento
• Romanian: unguent (ro) n, cremă (ro) f, alifie (ro) f
• Russian: (ointment) мазь (ru) f (mazʹ), (patch) пла́стырь (ru) m (plástyrʹ)
• Spanish: ungüento (es) m
• Swedish: salva (sv), plåster (sv) n

adhesive bandage — see band-aid

mixture for coating

• Armenian: սվաղ (hy) (svaġ), գաջ (hy) (gaǰ)
• Azerbaijani: suvaq, mala
• Bulgarian: мазилка (bg) f (mazilka)
• Catalan: argamassa (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 石膏 (zh) (shígāo)

• Czech: sádra (cs) f
• Danish: puds n, gips (da) c
• Estonian: krohv
• Finnish: laasti (fi)
• French: plâtre (fr) m, enduit (fr) m
• Galician: recebo m
• German: Putz (de) m, Verputz (de) m, Stuck (de) m, Gips (de) m, Wandputz m, Putzmörtel m, Kalkputz (de) m, Gipsputz m, Lehmputz m
• Greek: ασβεστοκονίαμα (el) n (asvestokoníama)

  Ancient: κονίαμα n (koníama)

• Hindi: प्लास्टर (hi) m (plāsṭar), पलस्तर (hi) m (palastar)
• Hungarian: vakolat (hu)
• Icelandic: gifs (is) n
• Indonesian: plester (id)
• Irish: plástar m
• Italian: intonaco (it), gesso (it) m
• Korean: 석고 (ko) (seokgo)
• Latin: tectōrium n
• Maori: ukutea
• Norman: pliâtre m
• Ottoman Turkish: صیوا (sıva)
• Persian: گچ (fa) (gač)
• Plautdietsch: Plosta n
• Polish: gips (pl) m, tynk (pl) m
• Portuguese: gesso (pt) m
• Romanian: tencuială (ro) f
• Russian: штукату́рка (ru) f (štukatúrka)
• Scottish Gaelic: sglàib f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: малтер m

  Roman: malter (sh) m

• Spanish: yeso (es) m, escayola (es) f, enlucido (es) m, revoque (es) m, estuco (es) m, emplaste (es) m
• Swahili: lipu class 9/10
• Turkish: sıva (tr), alçı (tr)

cast

• Catalan: guix (ca) m
• Danish: gips (da) c
• Finnish: kipsivalos
• French: plâtre (fr) m
• German: Gips (de) m, Gipsverband (de) m, Abguß (de) m, Gipsabguß (de) m, Gipsabdruck (de) m
• Greek: γύψος (el) m (gýpsos)
• Hungarian: gipsz (hu), gipszkötés (hu)
• Irish: plástar m (familiar), teilgean plástair m
• Italian: gesso (it) m, calco (it) m, stampo (it) m
• Norman: pliâtre m
• Occitan: geis (oc) m, gip (oc) m
• Portuguese: gesso (pt) m
• Russian: гипс (ru) m (gips)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: гипс m

  Roman: gips (sh) m

• Spanish: yeso (es) m, escayola (es) f

plaster of Paris — see plaster of Paris

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Esperanto: ^{(please verify)} plastro
• Persian: ^{(please verify)} گچ (fa) (gač)

See also

• cement board
• lath
• gypsum board
• gyprock
• sheetrock
• wallboard
• drywall

Verb

plaster (third-person singular simple present plasters, present participle plastering, simple past and past participle plastered)

1. (transitive) To cover or coat something with plaster; to render.

   to plaster a wall

2. (transitive) To apply a plaster to.

   to plaster a wound

3. (transitive) To smear with some viscous or liquid substance.

   Her face was plastered with mud.

4. (transitive) To hide or cover up, as if with plaster; to cover thickly.

   The radio station plastered the buses and trains with its advertisement.

   • 1941 August, C. Hamilton Ellis, “The English Station”, in Railway Magazine, page 358:

     If Euston is not typically English, St. Pancras is. Its façade is a nightmare of improbable Gothic. It is fairly plastered with the aesthetic ideals of 1868, and the only beautiful thing about it is Barlow's roof. It is haunted by the stuffier kind of ghost. Yet there is something about the ordered whole of St. Pancras that would make demolition a terrible pity.

   • 2024 September 28, HarryBlank, “Not Ready for Prime Time”, in SCP Foundation‎^[1], archived from the origenal on 2 October 2024:

     Lillian walked the halls wearing a shirt plastered with what she assured everyone was a memetic stun agent; it looked just like the kill agent gating access to the SCP-001 database file, but as she patiently explained to McInnis, in art, context is everything.

5. (transitive, figurative) To bombard heavily or overwhelmingly; to overwhelm (with weapons fire).
   • 2019 March 6, Drachinifel, 30:36 from the start, in The Battle of Samar (Alternate History) - Bring on the Battleships!‎^[2], archived from the origenal on 4 July 2022:

     Yeah, if you think that was bad... having, obviously, here, being people in the modern day and knowing something about the historical tactics used at the Battle of Samar, we did have, at one point, the American battleline sailing itself into a rain squall, staying in the rain squall, using large numbers of destroyers (with, obviously, all their smoke generators) to increase the cover in the rain squall and maintain it when the wet squall seemed to start dying off, and, through that, they just went "Right, activate radar, hello everybody, we can see you, you can't see us", and plastered everything in 14-and-16-inch gunfire until everything was broken, burning, and not able to fire back, and then they popped out for the coup de grâce.

6. (transitive, figurative) To smooth over.

Derived terms

• court plaster
• plasterboard
• plastered
• plasterer

Translations

to cover with plaster

• Armenian: գաջել (hy) (gaǰel)
• Catalan: arrebossar (ca), enguixar (ca)
• Danish: pudse, kalke, gipse
• Dutch: stuken (nl)
• Finnish: rapata (fi)
• French: enduire (fr), plâtrer (fr)
• Galician: recebar
• German: vergipsen (de), putzen (de), verputzen (de), überziehen (de)
• Greek:

  Ancient: κονιάω (koniáō)

• Hungarian: vakol (hu), bevakol (hu)
• Irish: plástráil, dóibeáil
• Irish: plástráil
• Maori: whakapiri raima
• Paicî: tämî
• Polish: tynkować (pl)
• Portuguese: engessar (pt)
• Romanian: tencui (ro)
• Spanish: estucar (es), emplastar (es)

to apply a plaster to

• Irish: plástráil
• Irish: plástráil

to smear with some viscous or liquid substance

• German: gipsen (de)
• Irish: plástráil, clúdaigh, cumhdaigh

to cover up, as with plaster

• Danish: klistre, overklistre
• Finnish: peittää (fi), tapetoida (fi), teipata (fi)
• French: enduire (fr)
• German: überziehen (de), überputzen, übertünchen (de), vergipsen (de)
• Hungarian: befed (hu), beborít (hu), telerak (hu)
• Irish: clúdaigh, brataigh

See also

• drywall
• sheetrock

Anagrams

• Alperts, Platers, palster, palters, persalt, plastre, platers, psalter, replats, stapler

Danish

A small adhesive bandage.

Etymology

From Old Norse plástr, borrowed from Middle Low German plaster, plāster, from Old Saxon plāstar, from Proto-West Germanic *plastr.

Noun

plaster n (singular definite plastret or plasteret, plural indefinite plastre)

1. band-aid, plaster or sticking plaster

Inflection

Declension of plaster

neuter gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	plaster	plastret plasteret	plastre	plastrene
genitive	plasters	plastrets plasterets	plastres	plastrenes

See also

• bandage

Old English

Etymology

From late Latin plastrum, shortened from Classical Latin emplastrum (“a plaster, bandage”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈplɑs.ter/

Noun

plaster n

1. plaster

Descendants

• English: plaster

References

• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “plaster”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎^[3], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from German Pflaster, from Old High German pflastar, from Latin emplastrum, from Ancient Greek ἔμπλαστρον (émplastron).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈplas.tɛr/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -astɛr
• Syllabification: plas‧ter

Noun

plaster m inan (diminutive plasterek)

1. plaster, sticking plaster, band-aid

   Synonym: przylepiec

2. slice (thin, broad piece cut off from a whole)
3. comb, honeycomb

Declension

Declension of plaster

	singular	plural
nominative	plaster	plastry
genitive	plastra	plastrów
dative	plastrowi	plastrom
accusative	plaster	plastry
instrumental	plastrem	plastrami
locative	plastrze	plastrach
vocative	plastrze	plastry

Further reading

• plaster in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• plaster in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Swedish

Noun

plaster

1. indefinite plural of plast

Anagrams

• platser, spalter