egestion

See also: egestión

English

Etymology

From Old French egestion, from Latin ēgestiōnem, accusative of ēgestiō (“emptying, voiding”), action noun from the perfect passive participle of ēgerō (“to carry out”), from ex- +‎ gerō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /iːˈd͡ʒɛst͡ʃən/
• Rhymes: -ɛstʃən

Noun

egestion (countable and uncountable, plural egestions)

1. The act or result of egesting

Synonyms

• egesta (result)
• excretion (act)

Antonyms

• ingestion

Related terms

• egest

Translations

act of egesting

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 排糞 / 排粪 (zh) (páifèn), 排泄 (zh) (páixiè), 排便 (zh) (páibiàn), 排遺 / 排遗 (zh) (páiyí)

• Finnish: ulostaminen (fi)
• French: excrétion (fr) f, excrément (fr) m, éjection (fr) f
• German: Egestion (de) f
• Spanish: egestión (es) f

Anagrams

• seeing to, seeing-to

Old French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ēgestiōnem, accusative of ēgestiō (“emptying, voiding”), action noun from the perfect passive participle of ēgerō (“to carry out”), from ex- +‎ gerō.

Noun

egestion oblique singular, f (oblique plural egestions, nominative singular egestion, nominative plural egestions)

1. (medicine) egestion

Related terms

• egérer

References

• égestion on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330–1500) (in French)
• Frédéric Godefroy (1880–1902), “egestion”, in Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle […], Paris: F[riedrich] Vieweg; Émile Bouillon, →OCLC.