urine

See also: Urine, uriné, and urinë

English

Etymology

From Middle English, borrowed from Old French orine, from Latin ūrīna (“urine”), from Proto-Indo-European *uh₁r-, zero grade of *weh₁r- (“water, liquid, milk”). Related to *h₁ewHdʰr̥- (see udder).[1] Displaced native English land (“urine”), (Middle English land, from Old English hland (“urine”)).

Pronunciation

Noun

urine (usually uncountable, plural urines)

  1. (physiology) Liquid excrement consisting of water, salts and urea, which is made in the kidneys, stored in the bladder, then released through the urethra.
    • 2013 June 1, “A better waterworks”, in The Economist‎, volume 407, number 8838, page 5 (Technology Quarterly):
      An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic the way real kidneys cleanse blood and eject impurities and surplus water as urine.

Synonyms

  • See Thesaurus:urine

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

urine (third-person singular simple present urines, present participle urining, simple past and past participle urined)

  1. (archaic) To urinate.
    • 1814, The Medical and Physical Journal (volume 31, page 226)
      He got out of bed every time he urined, or tried to urine.

References

  1. ↑ Watkins, Calvert (2000). The American Heritage Dictionary of Indo-European Roots. 2nd edition, page 100, s.v. wē-r-. →ISBN.

Further reading

  • urine in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
  • urine in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
  • urine at OneLook Dictionary Search

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Dutch

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /yˈri.nə/
  • Audio(file)
  • Hyphenation: u‧ri‧ne

Noun

urine f (plural urines)

  1. urine
    Synonyms: blaasvocht, pies, pis, plas, zeik

French

Etymology

From Middle French urine, respelled from Old French orine to reflect the original Latin spelling, from Latin urina. Old French orine likely derived from a Vulgar Latin intermediate form *aurina, which was influenced by aurum (“gold”). Compare also Italian orina.

Noun

urine f (plural urines)

  1. urine

Verb

urine

  1. first-person singular present indicative of uriner
  2. third-person singular present indicative of uriner
  3. first-person singular present subjunctive of uriner
  4. third-person singular present subjunctive of uriner
  5. second-person singular imperative of uriner

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Italian

Noun

urine f

  1. plural of urina

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Middle French

Etymology

From Old French orine, respelled urine to reflect the Latin spelling urina.

Noun

urine f (plural urines)

  1. urine

Portuguese

Verb

urine

  1. First-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of urinar
  2. Third-person singular (ele, ela, also used with tu and você?) present subjunctive of urinar
  3. Third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of urinar
  4. Third-person singular (você) negative imperative of urinar
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