sentry

sentry
\ \ [17] Sentry is probably short for the now obsolete centrinellsentry’. This first appeared in the 16th century as a variant of sentinel [16], which came via French sentinelle from Italian sentinella. It is not altogether clear where the Italian noun came from, but it may well have been derived from the verb sentireperceive, watch’, a descendant of Latin sentīrefeel’ (from which English gets sense, sentence, sentiment, etc).
\ \ Cf.SENTINEL

Word origins - 2ed. . 2005.

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