piscina

See also: písčina

English

Etymology

From Latin piscīna (“fishpond; swimming pool”), from piscis (“fish”). Compare Middle English piscyne (“pool, pond”), from the same Latin word.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɪˈsiːnə/
• Rhymes: -iːnə

Noun

piscina (plural piscinas or piscinae)

1. A drained basin near a church's altar for the disposal of water from liturgical ablutions.
2. A basin or tank, especially one for holding fishes or for growing aquatic plants.

Synonyms

• See washbasin.

See also

• (ritual of using a piscina): lavatory

References

• Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary: Tenth Edition (1997)
• Cambridge English Pronouncing Dictionary: Eighteenth Edition (2011)

Anagrams

• Pacinis, sinapic

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin piscīna (“fishpond”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [piˈsi.nə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [piˈsi.na]

• Audio

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Noun

piscina f (plural piscines)

1. fishpond
2. swimming pool
3. (Christianity) piscina

   Synonym: sacràrium

Related terms

• peix

Further reading

• “piscina” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Galician

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pisˈθinɐ/

Noun

piscina f (plural piscinas)

1. swimming pool

   Non é capaz de atravesar a piscina nadando.

   He is not able to swim across the pool.

Further reading

• “piscina” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin piscīna.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /piʃˈʃi.na/
• Rhymes: -ina
• Hyphenation: pi‧scì‧na

Noun

piscina f (plural piscine)

1. swimming pool
2. plunge pool (plunge basin or waterfall lake or deep depression at the base of a waterfall)

Descendants

• → Greek: πισίνα (pisína)

References

• piscina in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

• spinaci

Latin

Etymology

piscis +‎ -īna (literally “characterised by fish, fishy”)

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /pisˈkiː.na/, [pɪs̠ˈkiːnä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /piʃˈʃi.na/, [piʃˈʃiːnä]

Noun

piscīna f (genitive piscīnae); first declension

1. pond, pool
2. fish pond
3. swimming pool

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	piscīna	piscīnae
Genitive	piscīnae	piscīnārum
Dative	piscīnae	piscīnīs
Accusative	piscīnam	piscīnās
Ablative	piscīnā	piscīnīs
Vocative	piscīna	piscīnae

Derived terms

• Piscīna pūblica

Descendants

Descendants

• → Catalan: piscina
• → English: piscina
• → French: piscine
  • → English: piscine
• → Italian: piscina
  • → Greek: πισίνα (pisína)
• → Portuguese: piscina
  • → Hunsrik: Pisin
• → Romanian: piscină
• Spanish: pecina, → piscina
• Venetian: pissina

References

• “piscina”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “piscina”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• piscina in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “piscina”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “piscina”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Portuguese

piscina

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin piscīna (“fishpond; swimming pool”), from piscis (“fish”), from Proto-Indo-European *peysk-.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /piˈsĩ.nɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /piˈsĩ.nɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /piˈsi.na/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): (careful pronunciation) /piʃˈsi.nɐ/, /piˈsi.nɐ/, (careful pronunciation) /pɨʃˈsi.nɐ/, /pɨˈsi.nɐ/

• Hyphenation: pis‧ci‧na

Noun

piscina f (plural piscinas)

1. swimming pool
2. (Christianity) baptismal font

   Synonym: fonte batismal

Related terms

• peixe
• piscinal
• piscinão
• piscineiro

Descendants

• → Hunsrik: Pisin

Romanian

Noun

piscina

1. definite singular of piscină

Spanish

piscina

Etymology

From Latin piscīna (“fishpond; swimming pool”), from piscis (“fish”), from Proto-Indo-European *peysk-. Doublet of pecina.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /pisˈθina/ [pisˈθi.na]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /piˈsina/ [piˈsi.na]

• Audio (Colombia):

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• Rhymes: -ina
• Syllabification: pis‧ci‧na

Noun

piscina f (plural piscinas)

1. swimming pool

   Synonym: (Mexico) alberca

Derived terms

• piscinazo
• tirarse a la piscina

 

Further reading

• “piscina”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014