different between piscine vs piscina

English

Etymology 1

Latin piscis (“a fish”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?p?sa?n/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?pa?sin/, /?p?sa?n/

Adjective

piscine (comparative more piscine, superlative most piscine)

1. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of fish; ichthyic.
   • 2009, David Quammen, Where the Salmon Rule, National Geographic (August 2009), page 40,

     "At age four he caught his first fish and was evermore fascinated by things piscine;..."

Synonyms

• fishlike
• fishly
• fishy
• ichthyic

Translations

Etymology 2

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pi??si?n/, /p??si?n/

Noun

piscine (plural piscines)

1. (archaic) A public bath or swimming pool in France.

Anagrams

• spin ice

French

Etymology

From Latin pisc?na (“fishpond; swimming pool”), from piscis (“fish”), from Proto-Indo-European *pis?-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pi.sin/

Noun

piscine f (plural piscines)

1. swimming pool
2. piscina

Derived terms

Further reading

• “piscine” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Noun

piscine f

1. plural of piscina

English

Etymology

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

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)

Anagrams

• Pacinis, sinapic

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /pi?si.n?/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /pi?si.na/

Noun

piscina f (plural piscines)

1. swimming pool

Italian

Etymology

See French piscine

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pi???i.na/
• 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)

Anagrams

• spinaci

Descendants

• ? Greek: ?????? (pisína)

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /pis?ki?.na/, [p?s??ki?nä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /pi??i.na/, [pi??i?n?]

Noun

pisc?na f (genitive pisc?nae); first declension

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

Declension

First-declension noun.

Derived terms

• Pisc?na p?blica

Descendants

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, 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

Etymology

From Latin pisc?na (“fishpond; swimming pool”), from piscis (“fish”), from Proto-Indo-European *pis?-.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /pi.?si.na/, /pi.?si.n?/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /pi?.?si.n?/
• Hyphenation: pis?ci?na

Noun

piscina f (plural piscinas)

1. swimming pool
2. (Christianity) baptismal font

   Synonym: fonte batismal

Derived terms

• piscina curta
• piscina de saltos
• piscina olímpica
• piscina probática

Related terms

• peixe
• piscinal
• piscinão
• piscineiro

Descendants

• Hunsrik: Pisin

Romanian

Noun

piscina

1. definite singular of piscin?

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin pisc?na (“fishpond; swimming pool”), from piscis (“fish”), from Proto-Indo-European *pis?-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /pis??ina/, [pis??i.na]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /pi?sina/, [pi?si.na]
• Hyphenation: pis?ci?na
• Rhymes: -ina

Noun

piscina f (plural piscinas)

1. swimming pool

   Synonym: (Latin America) alberca

Derived terms

• piscinazo
• tirarse a la piscina