excrementum

== Latin == === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ɛk.skreːˈmɛn.tũː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ek.skreˈmɛn.tum] === Etymology 1 === From excernō (“to separate; discharge”) +‎ -mentum. ==== Noun ==== excrēmentum n (genitive excrēmentī); second declension refuse, rubbish bodily excrement ===== Declension ===== Second-declension noun (neuter). ===== Related terms ===== excernō excrētus ===== Descendants ===== === 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). ===== 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, 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