cloaca

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English[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Latin cloāca (sewer), from cluō (cleanse; purge).[1]

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Noun[edit]

cloaca (plural cloacas or cloacae)

  1. (sometimes figurative) A sewer.
    • 1773, Gentleman's Magazine, number 43, page 598:
      The Thames, polluted with the filthy effusions of the cloacae.
    • 1850, Thomas Carlyle, chapter IV, in Latter-day Pamphlets, page 46:
    • [] that tremendous cloaca of Pauperism []
    • 1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 266:
      After working an hour, I began to speculate on the distance one had to go before the cloaca was reached the chances we had of missing it altogether.
  2. (zoology) The duct in reptiles, amphibians and birds, as well as fish and some mammals, which serves as the common outlet for urination, defecation, and reproduction.
    • 1822, John Mason Good, The Study of Medicine, volume I, page 7:
      In birds the rectum, at the termination of its canal, forms an oval or elongated pouch [] and then expands into a cavity, which has been named cloaca.
  3. An outhouse or lavatory.
    • 1840, Frederick Marryat, chapter XXIV, in Olla Podrida:
      To every house [] a cloaca.
    • 1880, William Blades, The Enemies of Books, page 55:
      Only think of that cloaca being supplied daily with such dainty bibliographical treasures!
  4. (anatomy) A duct through which gangrenous material escapes a body.
    • 1846, Joseph François Malgaigne, translated by Frederick Brittan, Manual of Operative Surgery, page 172:
      Across this shell [sc. of bone] small holes are eaten, by which the matter escapes, and which are called cloacae (Weidmann).

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References[edit]

  1. ^ Oxford English Dictionary. "cloaca, n." Oxford University Press (Oxford), 1891.

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Dutch[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Latin cloaca.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ˌkloːˈaː.kaː/
  • (file)
  • Hyphenation: clo‧a‧ca

Noun[edit]

cloaca f (plural cloaca's)

  1. (zoology) cloaca (duct in certain vertebrates used for reproduction and excreting digestive waste)

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Italian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Latin cloaca. Cognate to the inherited doublet chiavica.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /kloˈa.ka/
  • Rhymes: -aka
  • Hyphenation: clo‧à‧ca

Noun[edit]

cloaca f (plural cloache)

  1. sewer
  2. cesspit, cesspool
  3. (anatomy) cloaca

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Further reading[edit]

  • cloaca in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Latin[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

From cluō (cleanse).

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cloāca f (genitive cloācae); first declension

  1. An underground drain, sewer.
    1. (humorous) Of the mouth and intestines of a voracious person.

Declension[edit]

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative cloāca cloācae
Genitive cloācae cloācārum
Dative cloācae cloācīs
Accusative cloācam cloācās
Ablative cloācā cloācīs
Vocative cloāca cloācae

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References[edit]

  • cloaca”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • cloaca”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • cloaca in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • cloaca”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • cloaca”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Portuguese[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Latin cloaca.

Pronunciation[edit]

 
  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /kluˈa.kɐ/, (faster pronunciation) /ˈklwa.kɐ/

  • Rhymes: -akɐ
  • Hyphenation: clo‧a‧ca

Noun[edit]

cloaca f (plural cloacas)

  1. (anatomy) cloaca (excretory and genital duct in bird, reptiles and fish)

Romanian[edit]

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cloaca f

  1. definite nominative/accusative singular of cloacă

Spanish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Latin cloāca (sewer), from cluō (cleanse).

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /kloˈaka/ [kloˈa.ka]
  • Rhymes: -aka
  • Syllabification: clo‧a‧ca

Noun[edit]

cloaca f (plural cloacas)

  1. sewer, storm drain
  2. (zoology) cloaca

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