Sentinel

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Sentinel

Type

free base

Denotation

watch, guard

Etymology

Middle French sentinelle; Old Italian sentinella, of unknown origin but probably from sentina +‎ -ella, from sentire; Latin sentīre

Evidence

biosentinel, nonsentinel, sentinel, sentineled, sentineling, sentinelled, sentinelling, sentinels, sentinelship, sentinelwise

Notes

<l> need not double (but can), especially with inflectional suffixes