Etymology

feces

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Today it means: Digested waste material (typically solid or semi-solid) discharged from a human or other mammal's stomach to the intestines. Full definition →

Latin faecēs ← substrate
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  1. substrate · derived from
  2. Latin · borrowed fromfaecēs
  3. English todayfeces

From Latin faecēs, nominative plural of faex (“residue, dregs”), further origin unknown; possibly borrowed from a substrate language.

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