sentine

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English

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Etymology

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Learned borrowing from Latin sentina (bilge water, hold of a ship, dregs).

Noun

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sentine (plural sentines)

  1. (obsolete) A place for dregs and dirt; a sink; a sewer.
    • 1536 June 19 (Gregorian calendar), Hugh Latimer, “Sermon II. The Second Sermon in the Afternoon [Made to the Clergy, in the Convocation, before the Parliament Began, the Ninth Day of June, the Twenty-eighth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord King Henry VIII].”, in The Sermons of the Right Reverend Father in God, and Constant Martyr of Jesus Christ, Hugh Latimer, Some Time Bishop of Worcester, [], volume I, London: [] James Duncan, [], published 1824, →OCLC, page 40:
      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; []
      The spelling has been modernized.

References

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sentine”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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French

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Etymology

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Learned borrowing from Latin sentina (bilge water, hold of a ship, dregs).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /sɑ̃.tin/
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Noun

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sentine f (plural sentines)

  1. bilge (lowest inner part of a ship's hull, where water accumulates)
  2. (figuratively) cesspool, cesspit (wet and filthy place)
    Synonym: cloaque
  3. (figuratively) place of corruption and moral decay

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Italian

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Noun

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sentine f

  1. plural of sentina

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