excrement

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛkskɹəmənt/

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Borrowed from Latin excrēmentum, from excernō (“I excrete”).

excrement (countable and uncountable, plural excrements)

1. (now specifically) Human and animal solid waste excreted from the bowels; feces.
2. (archaic) Any waste matter excreted from the human or animal body, or discharged by bodily organs.

   Synonyms: excretion, excretum

   • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, translated by John Florio, The Essayes […], London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
     , Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.97:

     A French Gentleman was ever wont to blow his nose in his hand […]. He asked me on a time, what privilege this filthie excrement had, that wee should have a daintie linnen cloth or handkercher to receive the same.

• See also Thesaurus:feces

• excreta
• excrete
• excremental
• excrementitious

Borrowed from Latin excrēmentum, from excrēscō (“I grow out”).

excrement (plural excrements)

1. (obsolete) Something which grows out of the body; hair, nails etc.

Borrowed from Latin excrēmentum.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [əks.kɾəˈmen]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [əks.kɾəˈment]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [eks.kɾeˈment]

excrement m (plural excrements)

1. (also in the plural) excrement

• “excrement” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “excrement”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “excrement” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “excrement” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

excrement

1. third-person plural present active subjunctive of excremō

Borrowed from French excrément, Latin excrementum.

excrement n (plural excremente)

1. excrement, feces

   Synonyms: fecale; (slang) rahat; (vulgar) căcat; (of animals) baligă

• (popular) scârnă, scremet