different between pentine vs sentine

English

pentine (plural pentines)

(organic chemistry) Any of several isomeric acetylenes having five carbon atoms and one triple bond

Latin sentina (“bilge water, hold of a ship, dregs”): compare French sentine.

sentine (plural sentines)

(obsolete) A place for dregs and dirt; a sink; a sewer.
- This alonely I can say grossly, and as in a sum, of the which all we (our hurt is the more) have experience, the devil to be a stinking sentine of all vices; a foul filthy channel of all mischiefs

sentine in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

sentine f

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