urinary

English

Etymology

From New Latin ūrīnārius.

Adjective

urinary (not comparable)

1. Pertaining to urine, its production, function, or excretion.
2. Of or relating to the organs involved in the formation and excretion of urine.

Synonyms

• uretic
• -uretic
• urino-
• urinal (adj)

Derived terms

• gastrourinary
• urinary bladder
• urinary tract

Related terms

• urology

Translations

urinary

• Arabic: بَوْلِيّ‎ m (bawliyy)
• Bulgarian: пикочен (pikočen)
• Catalan: urinari (ca)
• Czech: močový (cs)
• Esperanto: urina (eo)
• Finnish: virtsa- (fi)
• French: urinaire (fr)
• Greek: ουρικός (el) (ourikós)
• Hungarian: vizeleti
• Italian: urinario (it)
• Norwegian: urin- (no)
• Persian: ادراری‎ (fa) (edrâri)
• Portuguese: urinário (pt)
• Romanian: urinar (ro)
• Russian: мочево́й (ru) (močevój)
• Spanish: urinario (es)
• Turkish: idrarsal, üriner
• Ukrainian: сечови́й (sečovýj)

Noun

urinary (plural urinaries)

1. (archaic) A urinary device or fixture: a urinal.
   • 1864 January 26, J.G. Lindsay, letter to P.P.L. O'Connel, §8:

     Arconum—I found two chairs wanting in the gentlemen's room, and the bath room attached applied to other purposes... the privies and urinaries clean...

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:toilet and Thesaurus:chamber pot