latrine

English

Etymology

From Latin lātrīna.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA: /ləˈtɹiːn/

Noun

latrine (plural latrines)

1. a very simple toilet facility, usually just a pit or trench. See also the slang terms john and johnny house.

Translations

a very simple toilet facility, usually just a pit or trench

• Czech: latrína (cs) f
• Danish: latrin (da)
• Dutch: latrine (nl) f
• Finnish: ulkokäymälä (fi), ulkovessa (fi), latriini (fi)
• German: Latrine (de) f
• Greenlandic: anartarfiit imaat (kl)
• Italian: latrina (it) f, cesso alla turca (it) m

• Khmer: បង្គន់ (km) (bɑngkʊən)
• Macedonian: чучавец (mk) (čúčavec) m
• Russian: уборная (ru) (ubórnaja) f, отхожее место (ru) (otxóžeje mésto) n, сортир (ru) (sortír) m (slang), параша (ru) (paráša) f (criminal slang)
• Serbo-Croatian: чучавац (sh) (čučavac) m
• Spanish: letrina (es) f

Related terms

• privy

Anagrams

• entrail
• larnite
• line art
• ratline
• reliant
• retinal
• trainel
• trenail

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Dutch

Etymology

From French latrine (“latrine”), from Latin lātrīna (“bath; toilet”).

Noun

latrine f (plural latrines, diminutive latrinetje)

1. a very simple toilet facility, usually just a pit or trench; a latrine.

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Italian

Noun

latrine f

1. Plural form of latrina

Anagrams

• alterni