commode

== English == === Etymology === Borrowed from French commode (literally “convenient”). Doublet of comodo. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /kəˈməʊd/ Rhymes: -əʊd === Noun === commode (plural commodes) A low chest of drawers on short legs. A stand for a washbowl and jug. Synonym: washstand A chair containing a chamber pot. (euphemistic, US, South Asia) A toilet. (historical) A kind of woman's headdress, raising the hair and fore part of the cap to a great height. ==== Synonyms ==== (chamber pot): See Thesaurus:chamber pot (toilet): See Thesaurus:toilet ==== Related terms ==== accommodation commodious discommode, incommode ==== Translations ==== === See also === air commode (unrelated etymology) bidet == French == === Etymology === Borrowed from Latin commodus. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /kɔ.mɔd/ Hyphenation: com‧mode === Adjective === commode (plural commodes) convenient Synonym: pratique expedient Synonym: expédient ==== Derived terms ==== accommoder incommode incommoder ==== Descendants ==== → German: kommod === Noun === commode f (plural commodes) chest of drawers, commode, dresser (Louisiana) toilet Synonym: toilette ==== Descendants ==== → Danish: kommode → German: Kommode → English: commode → Icelandic: kommóða → Italian: comodino → Norman: commode → Norwegian: kommode → Persian: کمد (komod) → Russian: комод (komod) → Swedish: kommod → Turkish: komodin === Further reading === “commode”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012 == Interlingua == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈkom.mo.de/ === Adjective === commode comfortable == Latin == === Etymology 1 === ==== Adverb ==== commodē (comparative commodius, superlative commodissimē) conveniently aptly, suitably === Etymology 2 === ==== Adjective ==== commode vocative masculine singular of commodus === References === “commode”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “commode”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “commode”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[2], London: Macmillan and Co. == Norman == === Etymology === Borrowed from French commode. === Noun === commode f (plural commodes) (Jersey) tallboy