excrementum
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ek.skreːˈmen.tum/, [ɛks̠kreːˈmɛn̪t̪ʊ̃ˑ]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ek.skreˈmen.tum/, [ekskreˈmɛn̪t̪um]
Etymology 1
From excernō (“to separate; discharge”) + -mentum.
Noun
excrēmentum n (genitive excrēmentī); second declension
- refuse, rubbish
- bodily excrement
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | excrēmentum | excrēmenta |
| Genitive | excrēmentī | excrēmentōrum |
| Dative | excrēmentō | excrēmentīs |
| Accusative | excrēmentum | excrēmenta |
| Ablative | excrēmentō | excrēmentīs |
| Vocative | excrēmentum | excrēmenta |
Related terms
- excernō
- excrētus
Descendants
- Belarusian: экскрыменты (ekskrymjenty)
- Bulgarian: екскремент (ekskrement), екскременти (ekskrementi)
- Catalan: excrement
- Czech: exkrement
- Danish: ekskrement
- English: excrement
- Esperanto: ekskremento
- Estonian: ekskrement
- French: excrément
- Galician: excremento
- German: Exkrement
- Ido: exkremento
- Italian: escremento
- Macedonian: екскремент (ekskrement)
- Norwegian Bokmål: ekskrement
- Norwegian Nynorsk: ekskrement
- Polish: ekskrement
- Portuguese: excremento
- Romanian: excrement
- Russian: экскремент (ekskrement), экскременты (ekskrementy)
- Serbo-Croatian: екскремент
- Spanish: excremento
- Swedish: ekskrement
- Ukrainian: екскременти (ekskrementy)
Etymology 2
From excrēscō (“to grow or rise up or out”) + -mentum.
Noun
excrēmentum n (genitive excrēmentī); second declension
- that which grows out or rises up; an elevation, prominence
- (Medieval Latin) increase, surplus
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | excrēmentum | excrēmenta |
| Genitive | excrēmentī | excrēmentōrum |
| Dative | excrēmentō | excrēmentīs |
| Accusative | excrēmentum | excrēmenta |
| Ablative | excrēmentō | excrēmentīs |
| Vocative | excrēmentum | excrēmenta |
Related terms
- excrēscō
Descendants
- English: excrement
References
- “excrementum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “excrementum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- excrementum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- excrementum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976), “excrementum”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 389/2