latrinen.

Brit.

/ləˈtriːn/, U.S.

/ləˈtrin/

Forms: 1600s– latrine, 1800s– latreen, 1900s– latrin (regional); also Scottish pre-1700 lateran, pre-1700 latrin, pre-1700 latron, pre-1700 letterin, pre-1700 lettern, pre-1700 lettrin, pre-1700 lettron.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French latrine; Latin lātrīna.

Etymology: < (i) French latrine (chiefly in plural latrines; 1437 in Middle French), and its etymon (ii) classical Latin lātrīna privy, contracted < lavātrīna lavatrine n.Instances such as the following of a vernacular word laterin in Latin documents relating to the construction of cabins for ships seem unlikely to show earlier instances of this word:1296–7 Accts. Exchequer King's Remembrancer (P.R.O.: E101/6/22) Pro iij minutis barell. de Peycho emptis pro iij laterins in dictis cameris faciendo.

1. A toilet, typically one in a camp, field hospital, etc., often a temporary facility in which waste is collected in a pit dug in the earth or treated by chemicals.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > sanitation > privy or latrine > [noun]

gongOE

privy?c1225

room-housec1275

chamber foreignc1300

wardrobea1325

privy chamberc1325

foreignc1390

siegec1400

stool1410

jakes1432

house of easementa1438

kocayc1440

siege-hole1440

siege-house1440

privy house1463

withdraught1493

draught1530

shield1535

bench-hole1542

common house1542

stool1542

jakes house1547

boggard1552

house of office?1560

purging place1577

little house1579

issue1588

Ajax1596

draught-house1597

private1600

necessary house1612

vault1617

longhouse1622

latrine1623

necessary1633

commonsa1641

gingerbread officea1643

boghouse1644

cloaca1645

passage-house1646

retreat1653

shithouse1659

closet of ease1662

garderobe1680

backside1704

office1727

bog?1731

house of ease1734

cuz-john1735

easing-chair1771

backhouse1800

outhouse1819

netty1825

petty1848

seat of ease1850

closet1869

bathroom1883

crapper1927

lat1927

shouse1941

biffy1942

shitholec1947

toot1965

shitter1967

woodshed1974

1623 in C. Innes Fasti Aberdonenses (1854) 282 That the lettronis of the said college sould be timert and sklattit.

c1650 J. Spalding Memorialls Trubles Scotl. & Eng. (1851) II. 188 He also tirred the laterans in the colledge, whereby the studentis had not sic naturall eisment as befoir.

1661 in Fountainhall's Decisions in M. P. Brown Suppl. Dict. Decisions Court of Session (1826) II. 293 The public river of Tweed, whose use is common, and which dimits in the sea which is the latrons and receptacle of the universe.

a1662 T. Craufurd Hist. Univ. Edinb. (1808) 150 The publick latrines..were built where now they stand.

1706 N. de Souligné Compar. Old Rome & London ii. 137 Some think the..Bawdy-houses, Lupanaria, were also Publick Buildings, because those Authors mention them as well as the publick Latrines or Houses of Office.

1820 Edinb. Med. & Surg. Jrnl. 16 77 How much the individual comforts of the sick, and the general good order of an hospital, depend on the water-closets or ‘latrines’.

1867 Standard 23 Nov. 3 The longer the occupation of the camp the greater necessity for good drainage, for making new and filling up old latrines.

1869 E. A. Parkes Man. Pract. Hygiene (ed. 3) 311 Cesspits are now discontinued in most barracks, and water latrines are used.

1884 Internat. Health Exhib. Official Catal. 59/1 Enamelled Earthenware Latrine.

1897 M. L. Hughes Mediterranean Fever v. 181 Latrines are for want of space often in close proximity to bed-rooms.

1946 Life 25 Feb. 108/2 There were partitioned off and carefully marked a general officers' latrine, a field officers' latrine, a company-grade officers' latrine, [etc.].

1975 Scouting May 15/2 The latrine is clean, the water taps tightly closed.

2008 Backpacker Apr. 16/1 His core responsibility was traveling to and maintaining backcountry latrines dispersed over 600,000 acres of the San Juan National Forest.

2. Services' slang. A rumour, esp. a baseless or unsubstantiated one, supposedly originating from gossip in the latrines. Now rare.Apparently originating among military personnel during the First World War (1914–18). Compare earlier latrine dope, latrine yarn at Compounds 1, and later latrinogram n.

ΚΠ

1918 Two Blues (13th Battalion Austral. Imperial Force) 24 Dec. 3 In our Australian camps all we now call ‘Furphies’ were called ‘Latrine Wireless Messages’ and later ‘Latrines’.

?1919 W. O. Ross & D. L. Slaughter With 351st in France 3 Others, with the ‘latest Latreen’, had it that we were to sail from an ‘Atlantic port’ in less than a week.

1929 F. A. Pottle Stretchers (1930) i. 15 A ‘latrine’, we learned, was not only a building, but also the name for any particularly exciting but quite unfounded rumour emanating therefrom.

1945 M. Masuda Let. 11 Aug. in Lett. from 442nd (2008) 244 From the latest latrine, I wouldn't be at all surprised if we were to get the hind end of the deal and be strung along toward the South.

3. A place or area in which an animal regularly defecates.

ΚΠ

1899 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 2 Sept. 622 The badger has its run to its own latrine.

1961 Jrnl. Animal Ecol. 30 412 We did not find [rabbit] latrines..were of the territorial significance sometimes attached to them.

1981 Mammals Superior National Forest Minnesota (U.S. Forest Service) vi. 76 Some small mammals are known to use specific latrine areas and these may also communicate the animal's presence or well-being.

2018 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 18 Jan. 1 Field signs [of otters], such as tracks and slides beginning and ending in water, fragrant ‘sprainting’ latrines and perhaps the ‘sunray’ imprint of a paw are fractionally more easily seen.

Compounds

C1. attributive. Services' slang. Designating or relating to a rumour or a story, esp. a baseless or unsubstantiated one, supposedly originating in gossip in the latrines, as latrine dope, latrine rumour, latrine wireless, etc. Now chiefly historical.Apparently originating among military personnel during the First World War (1914–18). Compare sense 2 and latrinogram n.In quot. 2003 in extended use, applied to rumours circulating among the political class.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > speech > conversation > [noun] > chatting or chat > gossiping > rumour > a piece of rumour

reportc1440

voice1463

some-say1589

buzz1612

huma1616

hearsaya1642

on dit1814

legend1858

latrine1917

latrinogram1944

gist1990

1917 I. G. McCann With National Guard on Border viii. 203 What church people call gossip and the soldiers call ‘latrine dope’.

1917 R. Aldington Let. 29 Jan. in N. T. Gates Richard Aldington: Autobiogr. in Lett. (1992) 24 The latrine yarn is a libel! All the rest is perfectly accurate.

1918 Two Blues (13th Battalion Austral. Imperial Force) 24 Dec. 3 In our Australian camps all we now call ‘Furphies’ were called ‘Latrine Wireless Messages’ and later ‘Latrines’.

1918 in Amer. Speech 1972 (1975) 47 73 (title of unofficial newspaper) La Trine Rumor.

1921 J. Dos Passos Three Soldiers 168 That's the latest edition of the latrine news.

1925 E. Fraser & J. Gibbons Soldier & Sailor Words 140 Latrine rumour, a, a baseless report. An idle tale.

1929 A. W. Wheen tr. E. M. Remarque All Quiet on W. Front i. 15 Not for nothing was the word ‘latrine rumour’ invented; these places are the regimental gossip-shops and common-rooms.

1931 S. Southwold in Martial Medley 105 This short essay..confines itself mainly to the rumours current among the fighting forces, and generally referred to as latrine-rumours and dump-rumours.

1937 E. C. Parsons Great Adventure 31 When, by the usual latrine telegraph, the news filtered through that the French had consented [etc.].

1944 L. Glassop We were Rats 86 Time was so short, the latrine wireless insisted that we would sail any day.

1950 E. Partridge Here, There & Everywhere 76 Late in the [First] War, tersely (eine) Latrine—the English term being latrine-rumour.

1961 News-Bull. (Mokena, Illinois) 9 Nov. 4/2 That armistice business he'd heard about was really on the level and not just a lot of latrine gossip.

1977 J. Monaghan Schoolboy, Cowboy, Mexican Spy xvi. 187 It started a latrine rumor: we were marching off to police the Mescalero Apaches.

2003 Hamilton (Ont.) Spectator (Nexis) 19 Dec. a2 Rest assured those latrine rumours aren't emanating from him.

C2.

latrine pit n. a pit for the disposal of human waste from a latrine; a cesspit.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > sanitation > privy or latrine > [noun] > pit in the ground

latrine pit1857

1857 Rep. Proc. Sanitary Comm. dispatched to War in East 257 in Parl. Papers IX. 241 With the exception of 6 men, who were told off to sink a latrine pit at the back of the main guard.

1901 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 12 Oct. 1086/2 The system of latrine pits in a permanent camp is strongly condemned.

2006 J. Lane in L. Fox & R. Liebenthal Attacking Africa's Poverty x. 282 The biggest remaining technical and financial problem in Lesotho is emptying latrine pits.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	latrine
释义	latrinen. Brit. /ləˈtriːn/, U.S. /ləˈtrin/ Forms: 1600s– latrine, 1800s– latreen, 1900s– latrin (regional); also Scottish pre-1700 lateran, pre-1700 latrin, pre-1700 latron, pre-1700 letterin, pre-1700 lettern, pre-1700 lettrin, pre-1700 lettron. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French latrine; Latin lātrīna. Etymology: < (i) French latrine (chiefly in plural latrines; 1437 in Middle French), and its etymon (ii) classical Latin lātrīna privy, contracted < lavātrīna lavatrine n.Instances such as the following of a vernacular word laterin in Latin documents relating to the construction of cabins for ships seem unlikely to show earlier instances of this word:1296–7 Accts. Exchequer King's Remembrancer (P.R.O.: E101/6/22) Pro iij minutis barell. de Peycho emptis pro iij laterins in dictis cameris faciendo. 1. A toilet, typically one in a camp, field hospital, etc., often a temporary facility in which waste is collected in a pit dug in the earth or treated by chemicals. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > sanitation > privy or latrine > [noun] gongOE privy?c1225 room-housec1275 chamber foreignc1300 wardrobea1325 privy chamberc1325 foreignc1390 siegec1400 stool1410 jakes1432 house of easementa1438 kocayc1440 siege-hole1440 siege-house1440 privy house1463 withdraught1493 draught1530 shield1535 bench-hole1542 common house1542 stool1542 jakes house1547 boggard1552 house of office?1560 purging place1577 little house1579 issue1588 Ajax1596 draught-house1597 private1600 necessary house1612 vault1617 longhouse1622 latrine1623 necessary1633 commonsa1641 gingerbread officea1643 boghouse1644 cloaca1645 passage-house1646 retreat1653 shithouse1659 closet of ease1662 garderobe1680 backside1704 office1727 bog?1731 house of ease1734 cuz-john1735 easing-chair1771 backhouse1800 outhouse1819 netty1825 petty1848 seat of ease1850 closet1869 bathroom1883 crapper1927 lat1927 shouse1941 biffy1942 shitholec1947 toot1965 shitter1967 woodshed1974 1623 in C. Innes Fasti Aberdonenses (1854) 282 That the lettronis of the said college sould be timert and sklattit. c1650 J. Spalding Memorialls Trubles Scotl. & Eng. (1851) II. 188 He also tirred the laterans in the colledge, whereby the studentis had not sic naturall eisment as befoir. 1661 in Fountainhall's Decisions in M. P. Brown Suppl. Dict. Decisions Court of Session (1826) II. 293 The public river of Tweed, whose use is common, and which dimits in the sea which is the latrons and receptacle of the universe. a1662 T. Craufurd Hist. Univ. Edinb. (1808) 150 The publick latrines..were built where now they stand. 1706 N. de Souligné Compar. Old Rome & London ii. 137 Some think the..Bawdy-houses, Lupanaria, were also Publick Buildings, because those Authors mention them as well as the publick Latrines or Houses of Office. 1820 Edinb. Med. & Surg. Jrnl. 16 77 How much the individual comforts of the sick, and the general good order of an hospital, depend on the water-closets or ‘latrines’. 1867 Standard 23 Nov. 3 The longer the occupation of the camp the greater necessity for good drainage, for making new and filling up old latrines. 1869 E. A. Parkes Man. Pract. Hygiene (ed. 3) 311 Cesspits are now discontinued in most barracks, and water latrines are used. 1884 Internat. Health Exhib. Official Catal. 59/1 Enamelled Earthenware Latrine. 1897 M. L. Hughes Mediterranean Fever v. 181 Latrines are for want of space often in close proximity to bed-rooms. 1946 Life 25 Feb. 108/2 There were partitioned off and carefully marked a general officers' latrine, a field officers' latrine, a company-grade officers' latrine, [etc.]. 1975 Scouting May 15/2 The latrine is clean, the water taps tightly closed. 2008 Backpacker Apr. 16/1 His core responsibility was traveling to and maintaining backcountry latrines dispersed over 600,000 acres of the San Juan National Forest. 2. Services' slang. A rumour, esp. a baseless or unsubstantiated one, supposedly originating from gossip in the latrines. Now rare.Apparently originating among military personnel during the First World War (1914–18). Compare earlier latrine dope, latrine yarn at Compounds 1, and later latrinogram n. ΚΠ 1918 Two Blues (13th Battalion Austral. Imperial Force) 24 Dec. 3 In our Australian camps all we now call ‘Furphies’ were called ‘Latrine Wireless Messages’ and later ‘Latrines’. ?1919 W. O. Ross & D. L. Slaughter With 351st in France 3 Others, with the ‘latest Latreen’, had it that we were to sail from an ‘Atlantic port’ in less than a week. 1929 F. A. Pottle Stretchers (1930) i. 15 A ‘latrine’, we learned, was not only a building, but also the name for any particularly exciting but quite unfounded rumour emanating therefrom. 1945 M. Masuda Let. 11 Aug. in Lett. from 442nd (2008) 244 From the latest latrine, I wouldn't be at all surprised if we were to get the hind end of the deal and be strung along toward the South. 3. A place or area in which an animal regularly defecates. ΚΠ 1899 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 2 Sept. 622 The badger has its run to its own latrine. 1961 Jrnl. Animal Ecol. 30 412 We did not find [rabbit] latrines..were of the territorial significance sometimes attached to them. 1981 Mammals Superior National Forest Minnesota (U.S. Forest Service) vi. 76 Some small mammals are known to use specific latrine areas and these may also communicate the animal's presence or well-being. 2018 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 18 Jan. 1 Field signs [of otters], such as tracks and slides beginning and ending in water, fragrant ‘sprainting’ latrines and perhaps the ‘sunray’ imprint of a paw are fractionally more easily seen. Compounds C1. attributive. Services' slang. Designating or relating to a rumour or a story, esp. a baseless or unsubstantiated one, supposedly originating in gossip in the latrines, as latrine dope, latrine rumour, latrine wireless, etc. Now chiefly historical.Apparently originating among military personnel during the First World War (1914–18). Compare sense 2 and latrinogram n.In quot. 2003 in extended use, applied to rumours circulating among the political class. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > conversation > [noun] > chatting or chat > gossiping > rumour > a piece of rumour reportc1440 voice1463 some-say1589 buzz1612 huma1616 hearsaya1642 on dit1814 legend1858 latrine1917 latrinogram1944 gist1990 1917 I. G. McCann With National Guard on Border viii. 203 What church people call gossip and the soldiers call ‘latrine dope’. 1917 R. Aldington Let. 29 Jan. in N. T. Gates Richard Aldington: Autobiogr. in Lett. (1992) 24 The latrine yarn is a libel! All the rest is perfectly accurate. 1918 Two Blues (13th Battalion Austral. Imperial Force) 24 Dec. 3 In our Australian camps all we now call ‘Furphies’ were called ‘Latrine Wireless Messages’ and later ‘Latrines’. 1918 in Amer. Speech 1972 (1975) 47 73 (title of unofficial newspaper) La Trine Rumor. 1921 J. Dos Passos Three Soldiers 168 That's the latest edition of the latrine news. 1925 E. Fraser & J. Gibbons Soldier & Sailor Words 140 Latrine rumour, a, a baseless report. An idle tale. 1929 A. W. Wheen tr. E. M. Remarque All Quiet on W. Front i. 15 Not for nothing was the word ‘latrine rumour’ invented; these places are the regimental gossip-shops and common-rooms. 1931 S. Southwold in Martial Medley 105 This short essay..confines itself mainly to the rumours current among the fighting forces, and generally referred to as latrine-rumours and dump-rumours. 1937 E. C. Parsons Great Adventure 31 When, by the usual latrine telegraph, the news filtered through that the French had consented [etc.]. 1944 L. Glassop We were Rats 86 Time was so short, the latrine wireless insisted that we would sail any day. 1950 E. Partridge Here, There & Everywhere 76 Late in the [First] War, tersely (eine) Latrine—the English term being latrine-rumour. 1961 News-Bull. (Mokena, Illinois) 9 Nov. 4/2 That armistice business he'd heard about was really on the level and not just a lot of latrine gossip. 1977 J. Monaghan Schoolboy, Cowboy, Mexican Spy xvi. 187 It started a latrine rumor: we were marching off to police the Mescalero Apaches. 2003 Hamilton (Ont.) Spectator (Nexis) 19 Dec. a2 Rest assured those latrine rumours aren't emanating from him. C2. latrine pit n. a pit for the disposal of human waste from a latrine; a cesspit. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > sanitation > privy or latrine > [noun] > pit in the ground latrine pit1857 1857 Rep. Proc. Sanitary Comm. dispatched to War in East 257 in Parl. Papers IX. 241 With the exception of 6 men, who were told off to sink a latrine pit at the back of the main guard. 1901 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 12 Oct. 1086/2 The system of latrine pits in a permanent camp is strongly condemned. 2006 J. Lane in L. Fox & R. Liebenthal Attacking Africa's Poverty x. 282 The biggest remaining technical and financial problem in Lesotho is emptying latrine pits. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1623
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