urinal · noun1
- Latin · derived fromūrīnālis“urinary”
- Old French · derived fromurinal
- Middle English · inherited fromurinal
- English todayurinal
From Middle English urinal, urynal, orynal, from Old French urinal, orinal (“vessel for urination”), from Latin ūrīnālis (“urinary”). Use for plumbing fixtures attested from 1851.
urinal · adjective2
- Late Latin · derived fromūrīnālis
- Middle French · borrowed fromurinal
- English todayurinal
From Middle French urinal, from Late Latin ūrīnālis, equivalent to urine + -al.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.