cloaca
Meaninga sewer
Common meaning: a sewer
Other meanings: a shared body opening in birds and reptiles
- cloaca sewer, drainLewis & Short, Latin Dictionary (1879), p. 354 · scan
- aLatin plural ending: things to be
Sources & notes
Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.
Pronunciation
- UK IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.
- US IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.
Origin: Built on Latin cloāca ‘a sewer, drain’.
Roots
- cloāca, -ae Latin “a sewer, drain”
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