sentina

Catalan

Etymology

Inherited from Latin sentīna.

Pronunciation

Noun

sentina f (plural sentines)

  1. (nautical) bilge (lowest part of a ship)
  2. (figurative) cesspool

Further reading

Italian

Etymology

From Latin sentina.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /senˈti.na/
  • Rhymes: -ina
  • Hyphenation: sen‧tì‧na

Noun

sentina f (plural sentine)

  1. (nautical) bilge (lowest part of a ship)

Anagrams

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *semtīna, from Proto-Indo-European *semH- (to scoop).[1] Cognate with Proto-Celtic *semeti (to pour) (compare Middle Welsh gwehynnu (to pour), Old Breton douohinnom (drained)), Lithuanian sémti (to pump, scoop), and possibly Ancient Greek ἀμάομαι (amáomai, to draw (milk)).[2][3] Compare also Ancient Greek ἀντλία (antlía), ἄντλος (ántlos, bilgewater).

Pronunciation

Noun

sentīna f (genitive sentīnae); first declension[4][5][6][7]

  1. (nautical) bilgewater
  2. dregs (of society)

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative sentīna sentīnae
Genitive sentīnae sentīnārum
Dative sentīnae sentīnīs
Accusative sentīnam sentīnās
Ablative sentīnā sentīnīs
Vocative sentīna sentīnae

Descendants

References

  1. De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “sentīna”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 554
  2. Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*sem-o-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 330
  3. Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “ἀμάωμαι”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 82
  4. sentina”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  5. sentina”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  6. sentina in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  7. sentina in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin sentina.

Pronunciation

 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /sẽˈt͡ʃĩ.nɐ/
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /sẽˈt͡ʃi.na/

  • Hyphenation: sen‧ti‧na

Noun

sentina f (plural sentinas)

  1. (nautical) bilge (lowest part of a ship)
  2. toilet (device for depositing human waste and flushing it away)
    Synonyms: vaso sanitário, privada, retrete, sanita

Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Latin sentīna.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /senˈtina/ [sẽn̪ˈt̪i.na]
  • Rhymes: -ina
  • Syllabification: sen‧ti‧na

Noun

sentina f (plural sentinas)

  1. (nautical) bilge
  2. hovel; hole

Further reading

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