different between commode vs toiletrisers

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French commode (literally “convenience”). Doublet of comodo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??m??d/

Noun

commode (plural commodes)

1. A low chest of drawers on short legs.
2. A stand for a washbowl and jug.
3. (euphemistic) A chair containing a chamber pot.
4. (euphemistic) A toilet.
5. (historical) A kind of woman's headdress, raising the hair and fore part of the cap to a great height.
   • 1696, George Granville, The She-Gallants

     Now under high Commodes with Looks Erect,
     Bare-fac’d devours in gawdy Colours deck.

Synonyms

• (chamber pot): See Thesaurus:chamber pot
• (toilet): See Thesaurus:toilet

Related terms

• discommode, incommode
• bidet

Translations

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin commodus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?.m?d/

Adjective

commode (plural commodes)

1. convenient (of or pertaining to convenience; simple; easy; expedient)

Derived terms

• accommoder
• incommode
  • incommoder

Descendants

• ? German: kommod

Noun

commode f (plural commodes)

1. chest of drawers, commode, dresser
2. (Louisiana) toilet

Descendants

• ? Danish: kommode
• ? German: Kommode
• ? Italian: comodino
• ? Norwegian: kommode
• ? Swedish: kommod
• ? Persian: ???? (komod)

Further reading

• “commode” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Interlingua

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kom.mo.de/

Adjective

commode

1. comfortable

Latin

Etymology 1

Adverb

commod? (comparative commodius, superlative commodissim?)

1. conveniently
2. aptly, suitably

Etymology 2

Adjective

commode

1. vocative masculine singular of commodus

References

• commode in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• commode in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• commode in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.

Norman

Etymology

Borrowed from French commode.

Noun

commode f (plural commodes)

1. (Jersey) tallboy