commode

See also: Commode

English

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) Borrowed from French commode.

Noun

commode (plural commodes)

1. A low chest of drawers on short legs.
2. A stand for a washbowl and jug.
3. (euphemistic) A chair containing a chamber pot.
4. (euphemistic) A toilet.
5. (historical) A kind of woman's headdress, raising the hair and fore part of the cap to a great height.
   • Granville

     Or under high commodes, with looks erect.

Synonyms

• (chamber pot): See Thesaurus:chamber pot
• (toilet): See Thesaurus:toilet

Related terms

• discommode, incommode
• bidet

Translations

low chest of drawers

• Bulgarian: скрин (bg) (skrin)
• Esperanto: komodo
• Finnish: senkki (fi), matala lipasto
• French: commode (fr) f
• German: Kommode (de) f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Italian: canterano m, angoliera f, cantoniera f
• Macedonian: комода f (komoda)
• Russian: комо́д (ru) m (komód)
• Spanish: cómoda (es) f

stand for a washbowl and jug

• Bulgarian: подвижен умивалник
• Finnish: pesuvatiteline
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Italian: porta bacinella m, porta catino m

euphemistic: toilet

• Bulgarian: тоалетна (bg) (toaletna)
• Esperanto: klozeto, (euphemistic) necesejo
• Finnish: pönttö (fi)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• French: selle (fr) f
• Italian: gabinetto (it) m, cesso (it) m

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French

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin commodus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ.mɔd/

• Audio:

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Adjective

commode (plural commodes)

1. convenient (of or pertaining to convenience; simple; easy; expedient)

Derived terms

• accommoder
• incommode
  • incommoder

Descendants

• German: kommod

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

commode f (plural commodes)

1. chest of drawers, commode
2. (Louisiana) toilet

Descendants

• German: Kommode
• Italian: comodino

Further reading

• “commode”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Interlingua

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkom.mo.de/

Adjective

commode

1. comfortable

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Latin

Etymology 1

Adverb

commodē (comparative commodius, superlative commodissimē)

1. conveniently
2. aptly, suitably

Etymology 2

Adjective

(deprecated template usage) commode

1. vocative masculine singular of commodus

References

• “commode”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “commode”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• commode in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) to indulge in apt witticisms: facete et commode dicere
    
  • (ambiguous) a short, pointed witticism: breviter et commode dictum
    

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Norman

Etymology

Borrowed from French commode.

Noun

commode f (plural commodes)

1. (Jersey) tallboy