Etymology

basin

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Today it means: A wide bowl for washing, sometimes affixed to a wall. Full definition →

Middle English basyn ← Old French bacin ← Vulgar Latin *baccinum
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The story

  1. Proto-Celtic*baskis
  2. Gaulish*baskis
  3. Latinbacca
  4. Vulgar Latin*baccinum
  5. Old Frenchbacin
  6. Middle Englishbasyn
  7. English todaybasin

From Middle English basyn, from Old French bacin, from Vulgar Latin *baccinum (“wide bowl”).

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