piscina — a little-used English word that is now used specifically only to refer to a basin with a drain placed by an altar in a church to be used during ablutions
piscina — this is both the Spanish and the Italian cognate with a much broader and much more common usage for a pool like a swimming pool
“Piscina” comes from the same word in Latin which was u…
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