sentine

English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin sentina (“bilge water, hold of a ship, dregs”).

Noun

sentine (plural sentines)

1. (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; […]

     The spelling has been modernized.

References

“sentine”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• enseint, intense, tennesi, tennies

French

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin sentina (“bilge water, hold of a ship, dregs”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɑ̃.tin/

• Audio:

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Noun

sentine f (plural sentines)

1. bilge (lowest inner part of a ship's hull, where water accumulates)
2. (figuratively) cesspool, cesspit (wet and filthy place)

   Synonym: cloaque

3. (figuratively) place of corruption and moral decay

Further reading

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

Italian

Noun

sentine f

1. plural of sentina

Anagrams

• intense, tensine