Stercorarium
/ˌstɛr.kəˈrɛə.ri.əm/noun
A place for dung or refuse; especially a latrine or dung pit in historical Latin usage.
Did you know?Stercorarium comes from the same Latin root as stercus, the word for dung, and that root also gave English the rare, scholarly adjective stercoraceous.
Etymological Timeline
Classical Latin
Latin
stercorarium
“A place for dung; a dunghill or latrine area.”
Classical Latin
Latin
stercus
“Dung, manure, filth.”
Late Latin
Latin
stercorarius
“Pertaining to dung or manure.”
Middle English / Early Modern English
English
stercorary / stercoraceous
“Relating to dung or fecal matter, in learned usage.”
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