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
- a wide bowl for washing, sometimes affixed to a...
Ancestry of “basin”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Middle English | basyn | — |
| 2 | Old French | bacin | basin |
| 3 | Vulgar Latin | baccinum | wide bowl |
| 4 | Late Latin | bacca | wine jug |
Words derived from “basin”