Meaning

2 senses
  1. A person who urinates.

    a person who urinates

  2. (obsolete)A diver, especially someone who searches for things underwater.

Translations

1 languages

Origin

From urinate + -or (suffix forming an agent noun, indicating a person who does something).

From urinate + -or (suffix forming an agent noun, indicating a person who does something).

From Latin ūrīnātor (“diver”), from ūrīnārī + -tor (suffix forming a (masculine) agent noun). Ūrīnārī is the present active infinitive of ūrīnor (“to plunge under water, dive”), possibly from ūrīna (“urine; water (?)”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wer- (“to moisten; to flow”).

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Forms

plural: urinators

Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

11 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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