sterceia

Latin

noun

Definitions

a maidservant who cleans the excrement from children

Etymology

Suffix from Latin stercus (dung, manure, shit, excrement, excrements).

Origin

Latin

stercus

Gloss

dung, manure, shit, excrement, excrements

Concept

Semantic Field

Animals

Ontological Category

Person/Thing

Emoji

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Timeline

Distribution of cognates by language

Geogrpahic distribution of cognates

Cognates and derived terms

stercobilin English
stercolith English
stercoroma English
stercovorous English
bīlis Latin
stercoralis Latin
stercoranista Latin
stercorarius Latin
sterculinum Latin
stercus Latin
sterquilinium Latin
sterco Italian
stercoraceo Italian
-ωμα Ancient Greek
*(s)terǵ- Proto-Indo-European
*(s)terḱ-, *(s)terḱ-o- Proto-Indo-European
sterko Esperanto
șterc Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
esterco Old Portuguese