Where does “vide-ordures” come from?

vide-ordures (French) comes from French vider, from Middle French vuider, from Old French vuidier, from Vulgar Latin vocitare, from Vulgar Latin vocitus, from Latin vacitus, from Latin vacere — second-person singular present passive...

vide-ordures (French): garbage chute

Definitions

  1. garbage chute

Ancestry of “vide-ordures”, step by step

vide-ordures traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via French vider

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchviderto empty, to empty out; to gut
2Middle Frenchvuiderto empty
3Old Frenchvuidierto empty
4Vulgar Latinvocitarepresent active infinitive of vocitō;...
5Vulgar Latinvocitus—
6Latinvacitus—
7Latinvaceresecond-person singular present passive...

via French ordure

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchorduregarbage, refuse; dung, animal faeces; obscenity,...
2Old Frenchordfilthy
3Latinhorridusrough, bristly, shaggy; rude, rough, uncouth,...
4Latinhorreōto stand erect, stand on end
5Proto-Italichorzēō—
6Proto-Indo-Europeanǵʰr̥séh₁(ye)ti—
Every word from Latin vacere →Every word from Latin vacitus →Every word from Vulgar Latin vocitus →