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.

singular plural
nominative sentīna sentīnae
genitive sentīnae sentīnārum
dative sentīnae sentīnīs
accusative sentīnam sentīnās
ablative sentīnā sentīnīs
vocative sentīna sentīnae

Descendants

Descendants
  • Catalan: sentina
  • Italian: sentina
  • Portuguese: sentina
  • Sicilian: sintina
  • Spanish: sentina

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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