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English
Etymology
From French latrine (“latrine”), from Latin lātrīna.
Pronunciation
Noun
latrine (plural latrines)
- An open trench or pit used for urination and defecation.
- (India, otherwise military) Any facility or device used for urination or defecation, whether toilet, lavatory, or outhouse.
- (obsolete) A chamber pot.
Synonyms
Derived terms
Translations
a very simple toilet facility, usually just a pit or trench
— see also toilet,
outhouse
- Asturian: lletrina
- Bulgarian: отходно място (othodno mjasto)
- Catalan: latrina (ca) f, comuna (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 旱厕 (hàncè)
- Corsican: latrina f, latrine f, comudu m
- Czech: latrína (cs) f, záchod (cs)
- Danish: latrin (da) c or n
- Dutch: latrine (nl) f
- Emilian: latrèátna f, césso m
- Esperanto: latrino (eo)
- Finnish: riukula (fi), latriini (trench or pit); ulkokäymälä (fi), ulkovessa, puucee (fi), paskahuusi (fi) (outhouse)
- French: latrine (fr) f, latrines (fr) f pl
- Friulian: comud m, čhiadôr m, necessari m
- Galician: latrina f
- German: Latrine (de) f
- Gothic: 𐌿𐍂𐍂𐌿𐌽𐍃 m (urruns)
- Greek:
- Ancient: ἀφεδρών m (aphedrṓn), κοπρών m (koprṓn)
- Greenlandic: anartarfiit imaat
- Hebrew: לטרינה (he)
- Italian: latrina (it) f, cesso alla turca m
- Khmer: បង្គន់ (km) (bɑngkʊən)
- Ladin: cesso m, comodo m, soler m
- Ladino: huz
- Latin: latrīna f, forica f (public)
- Lower Sorbian: latrina f
- Macedonian: чу́чавец m (čúčavec)
- Malayalam: കക്കൂസ് (ml) (kakkūsŭ)
- Navajo: yah ańdajikahí
- Occitan: latrinas f pl, escremièras f pl
- Polish: latryna (pl) f
- Portuguese: latrina (pt) f
- Quechua: ispana ukhu
- Romanian: latrină (ro) f, privată (ro) f
- Romansch: latrina f
- Russian: убо́рная (ru) f (ubórnaja), отхо́жее ме́сто (ru) n (otxóžeje mésto), (slang) сорти́р (ru) m (sortír), (criminal slang) пара́ша (ru) f (paráša)
- Sardinian: latrina f, bascia f, códomu m
- Serbo-Croatian: чучавац m
- Slovak: latrína f
- Spanish: letrina (es) f, retrete (es) m
- Swedish: latrin (sv)
- Thai: ส้วม (th) (sûuam)
- Tibetan: ཆབ་ཁུང (chab khung)
- Turkish: hela (tr), kenef (tr), dışkılık (tr)
- Upper Sorbian: latrina f
- Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can
- West Frisian: latrine
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References
Anagrams
- ratline, inter al., art line, -traline, Latiner, entrail, line art, trenail, trainel, larnite, reliant, retinal
Dutch
Etymology
From French latrine (“latrine”), from Latin lātrīna (“bath; toilet”).
Pronunciation
Noun
latrine f (plural latrines, diminutive latrinetje n)
- a very simple toilet facility, usually just a pit or trench; a latrine
Italian
Noun
latrine f
- plural of latrina
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