cloaca

See also cloacă

English

Wikipedia

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪkə

Etymology

From Latin cloāca (“sewer”), from cluō (“cleanse”).

Noun

cloaca (plural cloacae)

1. A sewer.
2. A privy.
3. (anatomy) The common duct in fish, reptiles, birds and some primitive mammals that serves as the anus as well as the genital opening.

Synonyms

• vent

Derived terms

• cloacal

Translations

duct

• Bulgarian: клоака (bg) (kloáka) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 泄殖腔 (cmn) (xièzhíqiāng)

• Czech: kloaka (cs) f
• Esperanto: kloako (eo)
• Estonian: kloaak (et)
• Finnish: kloaakki (fi)
• French: cloaque (fr) m
• German: Kloake (de) f
• Irish: clóáca (ga) m

• Italian: cloaca (it) f, fogna (it) f
• Japanese: 総排出腔 (ja) (そうはいしゅつこう, sōhaishutsukō, そうはいしゅつくう, sōhaishutsukū), 排出腔 (ja) (はいしゅつこう, haishutsukō, はいしゅつくう, haishutsukū)
• Portuguese: cloaca (pt) f
• Russian: клоа́ка (ru) (kloáka) f
• Spanish: cloaca (es) f
• Swahili: kiloaka (sw)
• Swedish: kloaköppning (sv) c

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Italian

Etymology

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

Noun

cloaca f (plural cloache)

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

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Latin

Etymology

From cluō (“cleanse”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA: /kloˈaː.ka/

Noun

cloāca (genitive cloācae); f, first declension

1. A sewer or underground drain
2. (humorous) The stomach of a drunken or voracious woman

Inflection

Number	Singular	Plural
nominative	cloāca	cloācae
genitive	cloācae	cloācārum
dative	cloācae	cloācīs
accusative	cloācam	cloācās
ablative	cloācā	cloācīs
vocative	cloāca	cloācae

Derived terms

• cloācālis
• cloācārium
• cloācula

Descendants

English: cloaca French: cloaque Italian: cloaca, chiavica

Portuguese: cloaca Romanian: cloacă Spanish: cloaca

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Spanish

Etymology

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

Noun

cloaca f (plural cloacas)

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