piscine

From Late Latin piscinus or from Latin piscis (“fish”) +‎ -ine.^[1]

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈpɪsaɪn/, /ˈpɪskaɪn/, /ˈpaɪsaɪn/
• (General American) enPR: pīʹsēn, IPA^(key): /ˈpaɪsin/, /ˈpɪsin/, /ˈpɪsaɪn/, /ˈpɪsɪn/
• Rhymes: -aɪn

piscine (not comparable)

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; […]

From French piscine.

• IPA^(key): /piːˈsiːn/, /pɪˈsiːn/
• Rhymes: -iːn

piscine (plural piscines)

1. (archaic) A public bath or swimming pool in France.

• Cambridge English Pronouncing Dictionary: Eighteenth Edition (2011)

• spin ice

From Latin piscīna (“fishpond; swimming pool”), from piscis (“fish”), from Proto-Indo-European *peysk-.

• IPA^(key): /pi.sin/

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piscine f (plural piscines)

1. swimming pool
2. piscina

• “piscine”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

piscine f

1. plural of piscina