Where does “basin” come from?

Basin comes from Middle English basin, from Old French bacin, from Latin baccinum, from Latin bacca, from Latin baca meaning berry, from Proto-Celtic baskis, from Proto-Indo-European bʰask-.

basin (English): a wide bowl for washing, sometimes affixed to a...

Definitions

  1. a wide bowl for washing, sometimes affixed to a...

Ancestry of “basin”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle EnglishbasynA basin large bowl
2Old Frenchbacinbasin
3Vulgar Latinbaccinumwide bowl
4Late Latinbaccawine jug

Words derived from “basin

Every word from Late Latin bacca