commode
See also: Commode
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French commode (literally “convenient”). Doublet of comodo.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
commode (plural commodes)
- A low chest of drawers on short legs.
- A stand for a washbowl and jug.
- Synonym: washstand
- (historical, euphemistic) A chair containing a chamber pot.
- (euphemistic, US) A toilet.
- (historical) A kind of woman's headdress, raising the hair and fore part of the cap to a great height.
- 1696, George Granville, The She-Gallants:
- Now under high Commodes with Looks Erect,
Bare-fac’d devours in gawdy Colours deck.
Synonyms edit
- (chamber pot): See Thesaurus:chamber pot
- (toilet): See Thesaurus:toilet
Related terms edit
Translations edit
low chest of drawers
stand for a washbowl and jug
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euphemistic: toilet
See also edit
- air commode (unrelated etymology)
- bidet
French edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
commode (plural commodes)
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
- → German: kommod
Noun edit
commode f (plural commodes)
Descendants edit
- → Danish: kommode
- → German: Kommode
- → English: commode
- → Icelandic: kommóða
- → Italian: comodino
- → Norman: commode
- → Norwegian: kommode
- → Russian: комод (komod)
- → Swedish: kommod
- → Persian: کمد (komod)
Further reading edit
- “commode”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Interlingua edit
Pronunciation edit
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commode
Latin edit
Etymology 1 edit
Adverb edit
commodē (comparative commodius, superlative commodissimē)
Etymology 2 edit
Adjective edit
commode
References edit
- “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[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- (ambiguous) to indulge in apt witticisms: facete et commode dicere
- (ambiguous) a short, pointed witticism: breviter et commode dictum
- (ambiguous) to indulge in apt witticisms: facete et commode dicere
Norman edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
commode f (plural commodes)