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latrinal

latrinal adjective: of or related to a latrine; being or relating to a place for urination or defecation.

Adjective

latrinal (not generally comparable, comparative more latrinal, superlative most latrinal)

  1. (not comparable, usually) Of or related to a latrine; being or relating to a place for urination or defecation.
    • This slit, with its cover, and a vessel placed upon a shelf, Fig. I.,k, laid across strips, e e, constitute the latrine.[…] Fig. II. shows the form of the latrinal opening, and also the position of the cushions on either side of it for the seat.1862 February 13, B.E. Cotting, “Dr. Monroe's fracture bench”, in The Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, page 38
    • Felix always attended Venus upon her little latrinal excursions, holding her, serving her, and making much of all she did. To undo her things, lift her skirts, to wait and watch the coming, to dip a lip or finger in the royal output1903, Aubrey Beardsley, Venus and Tannhäuser (Under the Hill)
  2. (not comparable, usually, humor) Related to defecation or other taboo body functions, scatological.
    • As for the verbal humour, it is normally pornographic; but it achieves the latrinal.1914, Charles Mills Gayley, Representative English Comedies: The Later Contemporaries of Shakespeare: Fletcher and Others, page xxiii
    • Ieva Reklaityke’s work in Kalamazoo on sewers unclogged my mind, Martha Bayless’s latrinal insights were pleasantly pungent, and Kevin J. Wanner guided me to Eyrbyggja Saga.2015, Susan Signe Morrison, The Literature of Waste, acknowledgements

Forms of latrinal

comparativemore latrinal
superlativemost latrinal

Origin of latrinal

From latrine + -al.

Questions about latrinal

What does latrinal mean?
Latrinal means of or related to a latrine; being or relating to a place for urination or defecation.
What part of speech is latrinal?
Latrinal is an adjective.

Words near latrinal in the dictionary

  1. latrias
  2. latrid
  3. latridiid
  4. latridiids
  5. latrids
  6. latrinal
  7. latrinalia
  8. latrine
  9. latrines
  10. Latrino
  11. Latrinos

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