latrine

See also: Latrine

English

Etymology

From French latrine (“latrine”), from Latin lātrīna.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ləˈtɹiːn/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -iːn
• Hyphenation: la‧trine

Noun

latrine (plural latrines)

1. An open trench or pit used for urination and defecation.
2. (India, otherwise military) Any facility or device used for urination or defecation, whether toilet, lavatory, or outhouse.
3. (obsolete) A chamber pot.

Synonyms

• (open hole used as a toilet): privy
• (other toilet facilities): See Thesaurus:toilet, Thesaurus:bathroom, and Thesaurus:chamber pot

Derived terms

• latrinal
• lats

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

chamber pot — see chamber pot

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

• Audio:

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Noun

latrine f (plural latrines, diminutive latrinetje n)

1. a very simple toilet facility, usually just a pit or trench; a latrine.

Italian

Noun

latrine f

1. plural of latrina

Anagrams

• alterni