cesspool

English edit

From earlier sesspool. Origin uncertain.

Perhaps from Italian cesso (“privy, toilet”) + English pool. Alternatively, an alteration of English dialectal suspool, from suss, soss (“puddle; mire”) +‎ pool. Another possible derivation is from a folk etymology (influence from pool) from earlier cesperalle, alteration of Middle English suspiral, from Middle French souspirail (“air hole”), from soupirer, souspirer (“to sigh, breathe”), from Latin suspirare.

cesspool (plural cesspools)

An underground pit where sewage is held.
(by extension) A filthy place.
- 1891, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet. A Detective Story, 3rd edition, London, New York, N.Y.: Ward, Lock, Bowden, and Co., […], published 1892, →OCLC:
  Under such circumstances, I naturally gravitated to London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.

place for sewage

Arabic: بِئْر تَسْرِيب m (biʔr tasrīb), بَيَّارَة صَرْف f (bayyāra(t) ṣarf), بَالُوعَة f (bālūʕa)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 糞池／粪池 (zh) (fènchí), 糞坑／粪坑 (zh) (fènkēng), 污水池 (wūshuǐchí)
Czech: žumpa (cs) f
Danish: please add this translation if you can
Dutch: beerput (nl) m
Finnish: likakaivo (fi), likavesikaivo
French: fosse d’aisance f, fosse (fr) f
German: Jauchegrube (de) f, Jauchengrube (de) f, Senkgrube f, Abfallgrube f, Güllegrube (de) f, (South German) Odelgrube f
Greek: βόθρος (el) m (vóthros), καταβόθρα (el) f (katavóthra)
Hungarian: pöcegödör (hu), emésztőgödör (hu)
Italian: pozzo nero, fossa biologica f, fogna (it) f, cesso alla turca m
Maltese: ħarrajja f
Polish: szambo (pl) n
Portuguese: fossa (pt) f
Russian: выгребна́я я́ма f (vygrebnája jáma), сто́чный коло́дец m (stóčnyj kolódec)
Scottish Gaelic: poll-caca m
Serbo-Croatian: septička jama f
Spanish: pozo negro m, pozo ciego
Swedish: avloppsbrunn c, kloakbrunn c
Tagalog: poso siyego, poso syego
Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can
Volapük: jiedotasep

filthy place