Urinary
/ˈjʊə.rɪ.nər.i/noun
Relating to urine or the organs that produce and excrete it.
Did you know?Urinary comes from Latin urina, a word whose deeper history is uncertain, but it has long been tied to the everyday bodily substance that medicine, ritual purity, and diagnosis all treated as meaningful.
Etymological Timeline
Modern English
English
urinary
“relating to urine or the urinary organs”
Late Latin
Latin
urinarius
“pertaining to urine”
Classical Latin
Latin
urina
“urine”
Ancient Greek
Greek
ouron
“urine”
Proto-Indo-European
PIE
*h₁ers- / *ur-
“uncertain; proposed ancestral forms for urine-related words, but the origin is not securely established”
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