excrete

See also: excreté, excrété, and excrète

English

Etymology

(deprecated template usage)

Borrowed from Latin excretum, past participle of excerno, from ex- (“out”), and cerno (“separate”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛkˈskɹiːt/, /ɪkˈskɹiːt/
• Rhymes: -iːt

Verb

1. (biology, transitive, intransitive) To discharge material (including waste products) from a cell, body or system.

Derived terms

Derived terms

• excretory

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:urinate and Thesaurus:defecate

Related terms

• excern
• excrement
• excreta
• excretion

Translations

to discharge material

• Bulgarian: отделям (bg) (otdeljam)
• Catalan: excretar (ca)
• Chinese: 排泄 (zh) (páixiè)
• Czech: vyloučit (cs)
• Dutch: afscheiden (nl)
• Finnish: erittää (fi), ulostaa (fi) (to defecate)
• French: excréter (fr)
• German: ausscheiden (de)
• Greek: εκκρίνει (ekkrínei)
• Hungarian: kiválaszt (hu)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Italian: espellere (it)
• Japanese: 排泄する (はいせつする, haisetsusuru)
• Maori: whakatikotiko
• Polish: wydalać (pl) impf, wydalić (pl) pf, wydzielać (pl) impf, wydzielić (pl) pf
• Portuguese: excretar (pt)
• Romanian: a excreta, a elimina
• Russian: выделя́ть (ru) (vydeljátʹ)
• Spanish: excretar (es)
• Turkish: boşaltım (tr)

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Latin

Participle

(deprecated template usage) excrēte

1. vocative masculine singular of excrētus

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Portuguese

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: ex‧cre‧te
• Rhymes: -ɛt(ʃ)i

Verb

excrete

1. Template:pt-verb-form-of

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Spanish

Verb

excrete

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of excretar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of excretar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of excretar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of excretar.