A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin

Piscina,-ae (s.f.I), abl.sg. piscina: fishpond, a (controlled or artificial, stocked with fish) pond or small lake where fish are kept; a bathing or swimming pond, a basin, pool; a cistern, tank, reservoir; cf. cisterna,-ae (s.f.I), abl. sg. cisterna: cistern, reservoir; see pool.

NOTE: “In the medieval European era it was typical for monasteries and castles (small, partly self-sufficient communities) to have a fish pond” (Fish pond; Wikipedia Nov. 2018), but also small urban communities; used to tend fish, much like a pasture for cattle, as a food supply (perhaps as in Hedwig’s Leipzig).

NOTE: Ecclesiatical: “A piscina is a shallow basin placed near the altar of a church, or else in the vestry or sacristy, used for washing the communion vessels. The sacrarium is the drain itself. Anglicans usually refer to the basin, calling it a piscina. Roman Catholics usually refer to the drain, and by extension, the basin, as the sacrarium (Wikipedia); “pool, pond; sacrarium, baptismal font; fish market” (Stelten); see sacrarium,-ii (s.n.II);

- piscina calida (adj.A), a hot pool, caldarium,-ii (s.n.II), q.v.

- piscinae ligneae, wooden tanks or cisterns.

- piscina natatoria (adj.A), swimming pool, swimmer’s pool.

- in aquis dulcibus ad lapides et plantas aquaticas et ad parietes piscinarum et puteorum, in fresh water on stones and aquatic plants and on the walls of cisterns and wells (Stearn).

- [Dicranum heteromallum; moss] Habitat praesertim ad aggeres pinetorum ericetorumque. Hic Lipsiae im Oberholz nec non ubertim ad vallem piscinae, pineto lindenthalensi maxima pro parte conclusae (Hedw.; Adumb.), it grows especially on the mounds of Pine-associations and Erica-associations at Leipzig in the Oberholz (Germany) and also richly in the basin of a fish pond, for the most part enclosed, in a Pine-association in Lindenthal.

- [Grimmia apocarpa; moss] Hic Lipsiae passim ad piscinam Lindenthalensem, ad pontem ‘bey dem Kuhthurn’ et alibi occurrit (Hedw.; Adumb.), it occurs here in Leipzig everywhere at the fishpond at Lindenthal, on the bridge ‘bey dem Kuhturn’ and elsewhere.

- [Octospora bulbosa] Ad fossas sylvarum udas e. g. aquaeductus piscinae pineti lindenthalensis hic Lipsiae, iam Iulii initio post pluviosam tempestatem hinc inde prodit (Hedw.; Adumb.), it comes forth here and there on the wet ditches of forests, e.g. the conduit of the fishpoool of the Lindenthal [a suburb of Leipzig] pine-association here in Leipzig, already at the beginning of July after rainy weather.

- [Endocarpon pusillum; lichen] Mihi circa Lipsiam obviam fuit Schoenfeldi supra murum antiquum argillaceum, et ad declivitatem aggeris praestructi piscinae, in sylva Lindenthalensi (Hedw.; Adumb.], was encountered by me around Leipzig, upon the ancient clay wall of Schoenfeld, and on the declivity [i.e. (down) slope] of the prepared mound of the fishpool, in the forest of Lindenthal (Leipzig).

- [Subularia repens Quillwort; Brassicaceae; a plant growing at the bottom of lakes upon mountains] “Subularia repens, foliis convexo-planis. The creeping Subularia, with Leafes flat on the inside and round on the other;” [with leaves convex-flat].]

Nascitur sub aquis & his perpetuo immersa est, extra eas perit. Rich. Richardson primo observavit in amplis illis lacubus prope Llanberris, unde in piscinas suas in Comitatu Eboracensi detulit & multis annis, ut fructificandi modum observaret, aluit, sed incassum; tandem anates devoraverunt plantas (Dill.), it arises under the water and is permanently immersed in it, apart from these, the expert Richard Richardson observed them at first in those large lakes near Llanberry, whence he had them carried into his own fishpond in County York and he maintained them for many years, so that he may have observed the manner of fruiting, but in vain; in the end the ducks had devoured the plants.

Stabulum piscium (= gen.pl. piscis,-is (s.m.III), a fish), a fish-pond.