excrement vs excretion what difference

what is difference between excrement and excretion

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛkskɹəmənt/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin excrēmentum, from excernō (“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 excrēmentum, from excrēscō (“I grow out”).

Noun

excrement (plural excrements)

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

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin excrēmentum.

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 excremō

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French excrément, Latin excrementum.

Noun

excrement n (plural excremente)

1. excrement, feces

Declension

Synonyms

• fecale
• (popular) scârnă, scremet
• (slang) rahat
• (vulgar) căcat
• (of animals) baligă

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French excrétion, or Late Latin excretio, excretionis, from Latin excerno.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -iːʃən

Noun

excretion (countable and uncountable, plural excretions)

1. The process of removing or ejecting material that has no further utility, especially from the body; the act of excreting.
2. Something excreted in that manner, especially urine or feces.
   • 1881, Franklin Benjamin Sanborn, Journal of Social Science (page 32)

     […] the removal of all soiled liquids, and of such offaling, secretions and excretions as are easily or naturally reduced to a liquid or semiliquid state.

Related terms

• excrete
• secretion

Translations

Further reading

• excretion on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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