Where does “urinate” come from?
Urinate comes from Latin urinari, from Latin urinā, meaning urine, ultimately from an uncertain origin possibly related to Latin vertere meaning to turn.
urinate (English): To pass urine from the body
Definitions
- To pass urine from the body
Ancestry of “urinate”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Latin | urinatus | dived; plunged |
| 2 | Latin | urinor | I plunge under water, dive |
| 3 | Latin | ūrīna | — |
| 4 | Proto-Indo-European | uh₁r- | — |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | weh₁r- | water, liquid, milk |
Words derived from “urinate”