different between excrement vs coprophilous

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??ksk??m?nt/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin excr?mentum, from excern? (“I excrete”).

Noun

excrement (countable and uncountable, plural excrements)

1. (now specifically) Human and animal solid waste excreted from the bowels; feces.
2. (archaic) Any waste matter excreted from the human or animal body, or discharged by bodily organs.
   • , Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.97:

     A French Gentleman was ever wont to blow his nose in his hand […]. He asked me on a time, what privilege this filthie excrement had, that wee should have a daintie linnen cloth or handkercher to receive the same.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:feces

Related terms

• excreta
• excrete
• excremental
• excrementitious

Translations

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin excr?mentum, from excr?sc? (“I grow out”).

Noun

excrement (plural excrements)

1. (obsolete) Something which grows out of the body; hair, nails etc.

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin excr?mentum.

Noun

excrement m (plural excrements)

1. (also in the plural) excrement

Derived terms

Further reading

• “excrement” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “excrement” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “excrement” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “excrement” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Latin

Verb

excrement

1. third-person plural present active subjunctive of excrem?

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French excrément, Latin excrementum.

Noun

excrement n (plural excremente)

1. excrement, feces

Declension

Synonyms

• fecale
• (popular) scârn?, scremet
• (slang) rahat
• (vulgar) c?cat
• (of animals) balig?

English

Etymology

From copro- +? -philous.

Adjective

coprophilous (not comparable)

1. living in, or growing on excrement

   Synonym: fimicolous