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English
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin sentina (“bilge water, hold of a ship, dregs”).
Noun
sentine (plural sentines)
- (obsolete) A place for dregs and dirt; a sink; a sewer.
1536 June 19 (Gregorian calendar), Hugh Latimer, “Sermon II. The Second Sermon in the Afternoon [Made to the Clergy, in the Convocation, before the Parliament Began, the Ninth Day of June, the Twenty-eighth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord King Henry VIII].”, in The Sermons of the Right Reverend Father in God, and Constant Martyr of Jesus Christ, Hugh Latimer, Some Time Bishop of Worcester, , volume I, London: James Duncan, , published 1824, →OCLC, page 40:This alonely I can say grossly, and as in a sum, of the which all we (our hurt is the more) have experience, the devil to be a stinking sentine of all vices; a foul filthy channel of all mischiefs; […]
References
“sentine”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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French
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin sentina (“bilge water, hold of a ship, dregs”).
Pronunciation
Noun
sentine f (plural sentines)
- bilge (lowest inner part of a ship's hull, where water accumulates)
- (figuratively) cesspool, cesspit (wet and filthy place)
- Synonym: cloaque
- (figuratively) place of corruption and moral decay
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Italian
Noun
sentine f
- plural of sentina
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