• Original language: French
  • Original form and meaning: bassin - 1. basin, 2. pond, 3. swimming pool, 4. dock, harbour and 5. bowl


(Note: If the status is not specifically indicated then the word is stylistically neutral and generally used; if earlier meaning and status equals current use the former may be expressed by writing "dito". Cf. also the project guidelines.)


Language Form Date of Borrowing (and Obsolescence) Current Meaning and Status Earlier Meanings and Statusses Source
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Danish (havne-)bassin ... 'meaning 4' '...' ...
Dutch (haven)bassin ... 'meaning 4' '...' ...
English basin 13c: water vessel

18c: large-scale artificial water-holding landscape feature

19c: tract of country drained by one river or draining into one sea

' meaning 1, 2, 4, 5,

and also: a sink, a region drained by a single river system (the Amazon basin)

Geology: a broad tract of land in which the rock strata are tilted toward a common center or a large, bowl-shaped depression in the surface of the land or ocean floor.

Botany: the depression in an apple, pear, or other pome at the end opposite the stem'

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Estonian ... ... '...' '...' ...
Finnish ... ... '...' '...' ...
French ... ... '...' '...' ...
Frisian ... ... '...' '...' ...
German Bassin ... 'artificial water-holding landscape feature (pond, swimming pool),

and also: in georaphical names'

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Hungarian ... ... '...' '...' ...
Irish ... ... '...' '...' ...
Italian bacino, bacinella ... 'bacino: meaning 4; and also Geology: a broad tract of land in which the rock strata are tilted toward a common center or a large, bowl-shaped depression in the surface of the land or ocean floor;

bacinella: hand-wash bowl'

'...' ...
Latvian baseins ... 'a region drained by a single river system' '...' ...
Lithuanian baseinas ... 'meaning 4;

and also: a region drained by a single river system'

'...' ...
Maltese ... ... '...' '...' ...
Norwegian basseng ... 'meaning 4' '...' ...
Polish basen portowy ... 'meaning 4' '...' ...
Portuguese bacia ... 'meaning 4;

and also: a sink, Geology: a broad tract of land in which the rock strata are tilted toward a common center or a large, bowl-shaped depression in the surface of the land or ocean floor'

'...' ...
Rumantsch ... ... '...' '...' ...
Slovak ... ... '...' '...' ...
Slovenian ... ... '...' '...' ...
Spanish ... ... '...' '...' ...
Swedish bassäng ... 'meaning 4' '...' ...

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Etymology: ME bacin, from O.Fr. bacin, from V.L. *baccinum, from L. bacca "water vessel", perhaps originally Gaulish

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