piscina

From the Medieval Latin, from Latin piscīna (“fishpond; swimming pool”), from piscis (“fish”). (1793)

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.

• See washbasin.

• (ritual of using a piscina): lavatory

• Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary: Tenth Edition (1997)

• Pacinis, sinapic

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

piscina f (plural piscines)

1. swimming pool

See French piscine

• IPA^(key): /piʃˈʃina/
• Hyphenation: pi‧scì‧na

piscina f (plural piscine)

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

• spinaci

• → Greek: πισίνα (pisína)

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /pisˈkiː.na/, [pɪsˈkiː.na]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /piˈʃi.na/, [piʃˈʃiː.na]

piscīna f (genitive piscīnae); first declension

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

First declension.

• Piscīna pūblica

• 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

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

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /pi.ˈsi.na/, /pi.ˈsi.nɐ/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /piʃ.ˈsi.nɐ/
• Hyphenation: pis‧ci‧na

piscina f (plural piscinas)

1. swimming pool
2. (Christianity) baptismal font

• (baptismal font): fonte batismal

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

• peixe
• piscinal
• piscinão
• piscineiro

piscina

1. singular definite of piscină

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

• (Castilian) IPA^(key): /pisˈθina/
• (Latin America) IPA^(key): /piˈsina/

piscina f (plural piscinas)

1. swimming pool

• (Latin America) alberca f