English
coprodeum
Coprodeum comes from Ancient Greek ὁδαῖος ‘on the way’, and goes back to ὁδός.
- Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEὁδός‘way, road’
- Ancient Greek, derivedc. 800–300 BCEὁδαῖος‘on the way’
- Englishtodaycoprodeum
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEὁδός‘way, road’
- Ancient Greek, derivedc. 800–300 BCEὁδαῖος‘on the way’
- Englishtodaycoprodeum
Formed from copro ‘of or relating to excrement’
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *sed- ‘to sit’
set, president, size, sell, sit, sitting, seat, session, chair, settle, resident, assess, nest, possess, siege, niche, saddle, subsidy, sedan, residue, residual, reside, sediment, nye, insidious, beset, soot, sedentary, sedative, setter, dissident, obsess, prasad, sedate, chaise, sate, presidio, sessile, seance, ersatz, 92 more
through Ancient Greek ὁδός ‘way, road’
Today it means
noun The most cranial division of the cloaca.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Ancient Greek ὁδός / coprodeum