EuroLex/F/Basin
- 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 |
| Catalan | ... | ... | '...' | '...' | ... |
| Croatian | ... | ... | '...' | '...' | ... |
| Czech | ... | ... | '...' | '...' | ... |
| 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' | '...' | http://www.etymonline.com, http://dictionary.reference.com |
| Estonian | ... | ... | '...' | '...' | ... |
| Finnish | ... | ... | '...' | '...' | ... |
| French | ... | ... | '...' | '...' | ... |
| Frisian | ... | ... | '...' | '...' | ... |
| German | Bassin | ... | 'artificial water-holding landscape feature (pond, swimming pool),
and also: in georaphical names' | '...' | ... |
| 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' | '...' | ... |
Annotations
editEtymology: ME bacin, from O.Fr. bacin, from V.L. *baccinum, from L. bacca "water vessel", perhaps originally Gaulish
http://www.etymonline.com, http://dictionary.reference.com
Information on Other Languages
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