urine
Definitions
General English
Agriculture
- noun a liquid secreted as waste from an animal’s body
Food
- noun a yellowish liquid, containing water and waste products, mainly salt and urea, that is excreted by the kidneys and passed out of the body through the ureters, bladder and urethra
Origin & History of “urine”
Urine comes via Old French urine from Latin ūrīna, which may be related to Greek oū́ron ‘urine’ (source of English urea (19th c.), ureter (16th c.), urethra (17th c.), and uric (18th c.)) and Sanskrit varsa- ‘rain’. Urinal (13th c.) comes from the late Latin derivative ūrīnālis.
