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- Latin · borrowed fromcloāca“sewer”
- English todaycloaca
Borrowed from Latin cloāca (“sewer”), related to cluō (“cleanse; purge”), but the derivation is uncertain.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Today it means: A sewer. Full definition →
Borrowed from Latin cloāca (“sewer”), related to cluō (“cleanse; purge”), but the derivation is uncertain.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.