piscine

piscine

English

Etymology 1

From Late Latin piscinus or from Latin piscis (“fish”) +‎ -ine.[1]

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈpɪsaɪn/, /ˈpɪskaɪn/, /ˈpaɪsaɪn/
• (General American) enPR: pīʹsēn, IPA^(key): /ˈpaɪsin/, /ˈpɪsin/, /ˈpɪsaɪn/, /ˈpɪsɪn/
• Rhymes: -aɪn

Adjective

piscine (comparative more piscine, superlative most piscine)

1. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of fish; ichthyic.

   Synonyms: fishlike, fishly, fishy, 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; […]

Translations

of, pertaining to, or characteristic of fish; ichthyic

Arabic: سَمَكِيّ‎ (samakiyy) Belarusian: ры́бін (rýbin), ры́бны (rýbny) Bulgarian: ри́бен (ríben) Catalan: íctic Czech: rybí (cs) French: ichthyique (fr) German: Fisch- (de) Italian: ittico (it) Latin: ichthyicus Polish: rybi (pl) Russian: ры́бий (ru) (rýbij), ры́бный (ru) (rýbnyj) Spanish: íctico (es) Ukrainian: ри́б'ячий (rýbʺjačyj) Volapük: fitik

Etymology 2

From French piscine.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /piːˈsiːn/, /pɪˈsiːn/
• Rhymes: -iːn

Noun

piscine (plural piscines)

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

References

• Cambridge English Pronouncing Dictionary: Eighteenth Edition (2011)

1. “piscine, adj.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

Anagrams

• spin ice

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French

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pi.sin/

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Noun

piscine f (plural piscines)

1. swimming pool
2. piscina

Derived terms

• avoir piscine
• lunettes de piscine
• nouille de piscine
• piscine à débordement

 

Further reading

• “piscine”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Italian

Noun

piscine f

1. plural of piscina