Where does “cesspool” come from?
Cesspool derives from English pool and English suspect, both ultimately from Latin palus meaning marsh, combined with Latin sub meaning under, via Latin -io and Latin pullus.
cesspool (English): An underground pit where sewage is held; A filthy...
Definitions
- An underground pit where sewage is held; A filthy...
Ancestry of “cesspool”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | English | sesspool | Archaic form of cesspool |
| 2 | English | suspiral | A breathing hole; a vent or ventiduct; A spring... |
| 3 | English | AL | Initialism of assembly language; Initialism of... |
| 4 | Dutch | al | all, all of; already; yet |
| 5 | Middle Dutch | al | all, all of; completely; even though, no matter... |
| 6 | Old Dutch | āl | — |
| 7 | Proto-West Germanic | all | all |
| 8 | Proto-Germanic | allaz | all |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | h₂él- | — |