Piscine
/ˈpɪs.iːn/noun
Relating to fish or a swimming pool.
Did you know?Its Latin root *piscis* also lives inside words like piranha-like scientific terms and old Roman names, showing how fish became a building block of learned vocabulary.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Indo-European
PIE
*peisk-
“fish”
Latin
Latin
piscis
“fish”
Late Latin
Latin
piscīnus
“of fish; fishy”
Old French
Old French
piscine
“fishy; pertaining to fish”
Modern English
English
piscine
“relating to fish or to a swimming pool”
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