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urinator

noun
/ˈjʊəɹɪˌneɪtə/UK/ˈjʊəɹɪˌneɪtɚ/US

Etymology

From Latin ūrīnātor (“diver”), from ūrīnārī + -tor (suffix forming a (masculine) agent noun). Ūrīnārī is the present active infinitive of ūrīnor (“to plunge under water, dive”), possibly from ūrīna (“urine; water (?)”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wer- (“to moisten; to flow”).

  1. derived from *h₂wer-✻ — “to moisten; to flow”
  2. borrowed from ūrīnātor — “diver”

Definitions

  1. A person who urinates.

  2. A diver, especially someone who searches for things underwater.

    • In Feb. 166¾. he [Robert Hooke] contriv'd a way to ſupply freſh Air to the Urinator under the Diving Bell by a Chain of Buckets and a Leaden Box for his Head, when he went out of the Bell to be ſupply'd with freſh Air from the Bell, &c.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA