piscine

English

Etymology 1

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

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)
• Finnish: kala-
• 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
• Welsh: pysgodol

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)

Anagrams

• spin ice

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.

Italian

Noun

piscine f

1. plural of piscina