Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗noun
A wide bowl for washing, sometimes affixed to a wall. · A shallow bowl used for a single serving of a drink or liquidy food. · A depression, natural or artificial, containing water. · An area of land from which water drains into a common outlet; drainage basin.
verb
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryTo create a concavity or depression in. · To serve as or become a basin. · To shelter or enclose in a basin.
Etymology tree Proto-Celtic *baskis Gaulish *baskisder. Latin bacca Vulgar Latin *baccinum Old French bacinbor. Middle English basyn English basin From Middle English basyn, from Old French bacin, from Vulgar Latin *baccinum (“wide bowl”).
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