piscine
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See also: Piscine
English
[edit ]Etymology 1
[edit ]From Late Latin piscinus or from Latin piscis ("fish") + -ine .[1]
Pronunciation
[edit ]- (Received Pronunciation ) IPA (key): /ˈpɪsaɪn/, /ˈpɪskaɪn/, /ˈpaɪsaɪn/
- (General American ) enPR: pīʹsēn, IPA (key): /ˈpaɪsin/, /ˈpɪsin/, /ˈpɪsaɪn/, /ˈpɪsɪn/
- Rhymes: -aɪn
Adjective
[edit ]piscine (not comparable )
- Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of fish; ichthyic.
- Synonyms: fishlike , fishly , fishy , ichthyic ; see also Thesaurus:fishlike
- 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 96:
- In the ancient Middle East certain cults had piscine deities, or deities with fish attributes of various kinds.
- 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; [...]
Derived terms
[edit ]Translations
[edit ]of, pertaining to, or characteristic of fish; ichthyic
- Arabic: سَمَكِيّ (samakiyy)
- Belarusian: ры́бін (rýbin), ры́бны (rýbny)
- Bulgarian: ри́бен (ríben)
- Catalan: íctic
- Czech: rybí (cs)
- Finnish: kala-
- French: ichthyique (fr) , poissonnesque (fr)
- German: Fisch- (de)
- Italian: ittico (it)
- Latin: ichthyicus
- Polish: rybi (pl)
- Russian: ры́бий (ru) (rýbij), ры́бный (ru) (rýbnyj)
- Spanish: íctico (es) , ictíneo , ictícola , pisciforme , ictiológico (es)
- Ukrainian: ри́б'ячий (rýbʺjačyj)
- Volapük: fitik
- Welsh: pysgodol
Etymology 2
[edit ]Borrowed from French piscine .
Pronunciation
[edit ]Noun
[edit ]piscine (plural piscines )
- (archaic ) A public bath or swimming pool in France.
References
[edit ]- Cambridge English Pronouncing Dictionary: Eighteenth Edition (2011)
- ^ "piscine, adj.", in OED Online Paid subscription required , Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
Anagrams
[edit ]French
[edit ]Etymology
[edit ]From Old French piscine, pecine (12th c.), a borrowing from Latin piscīna ("pool, basin, fishpond"), derived from piscis ("fish"). Originally used in French in the context of religious ablutions; the sense "swimming pool" is first attested in the 16th century.
Pronunciation
[edit ]Noun
[edit ]piscine f (plural piscines )
Derived terms
[edit ]Descendants
[edit ]Further reading
[edit ]- "piscine", in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012
Italian
[edit ]Noun
[edit ]piscine f
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