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English
Etymology
From Latin sterquilinium (“a dung pit”), from stercus (“dung”), + -ous.
Pronunciation
Adjective
sterquilinous (comparative more sterquilinous, superlative most sterquilinous)
- (obsolete) Pertaining to a dunghill
- mean; dirty; paltry.
1655, James Howell, “To Dr. D. Featly”, in Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ. Familiar Letters Domestic and Forren. , 3rd edition, volume (please specify the page), London: Humphrey Mosley, , →OCLC:every tressis agaso, any sterquilinous Rascal, is licens'd to throw dirt in the faces of Sovereign Princes in open printed language
References
“sterquilinous”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.