urinario

Forms

urinario (feminine urinaria, masculine plural urinarios, feminine plural urinarias)^[1]

Etymology

It is borrowed from Medieval Latin ūrīnārius (“of urine”), a learned word, from ūrīna (“urine”) and the suffix -ārius.^[2][1][3] Corominas lists it as a learned derivative beside the popular orina, with no date.^[4][3] Terreros noted in the 18th century that the Latin form was not classical.^[5]

The Latin noun is from *ūrīno- (“watery”), from *woh₁-r̥ (“water”).^[6][1] De Vaan takes the meaning urine to be a later one of a word for water.^[6] The adjective is French urinaire and Italian urinario.^[7]

Earliest recorded meaning

Autoridades (1739) records it as a medical term, “belonging to urine”, with the example bálsamo urinario, a balm acting on the urine.^[8]

Semantic evolution

Until the late 19th century the dictionaries had only the adjective.^[9][10] The Academy added the noun “urinal, public place for urinating” in 1899, defining it as a decent, convenient meadero.^[11] Today it names both what belongs to urine and the urinary organs (aparato urinario, vías urinarias) and a public lavatory, usually for men.^[2][12][13] In Lima in 1793–1794 the forms orinaria and urinaria both appear, of the bladder and of a urinary stone.^[14]

Timeline

• 1739 – Autoridades records urinario as a medical adjective.^[8]
• 1793 – a record from Lima uses vexiga orinaria “urinary bladder”.^[14]
• 1899 – the Academy adds the noun for a public urinal.^[11]

Meanings

Adjective

1. Of or relating to urine (orina) or the organs that produce and pass it; urinary: unos síntomas urinarios.^[2][1][15]

Noun

1. A place for urinating, especially a public one in streets or buildings; urinal.^[2][1]

Related words

• orina
• orinar
• orinal
• Latin ūrīna

References

1. ^ a b c d e f Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b c d Real Academia Española; Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española (2014–), Diccionario de la lengua española, 23rd ed., online version 23.8, https://dle.rae.es, p. s.v. urinario
3. ^ a b Corominas, Joan (1973), Breve diccionario etimológico de la lengua castellana, 3rd ed., Madrid: Gredos, p. s.v. orina
4. ^ Corominas, Joan; Pascual, José A. (1980–1991), Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico, 6 vols., Madrid: Gredos, p. 4, 299
5. ^ Terreros y Pando, Esteban de (1786–1793), Diccionario castellano con las voces de ciencias y artes y sus correspondientes de las tres lenguas francesa, latina e italiana, 4 vols., Madrid: Viuda de Ibarra, p. 3, 741
6. ^ a b de Vaan, Michiel (2008), Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages, Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series 7, Leiden; Boston: Brill, p. s.v. ūrīna
7. ^ Echegaray, Eduardo de (1887–1889), Diccionario general etimológico de la lengua española, 5 vols., Madrid: José María Faquineto, p. 636
8. ^ a b Real Academia Española (1726–1739), Diccionario de la lengua castellana (Diccionario de Autoridades), 6 vols., Madrid: Francisco del Hierro, p. 6, 398
9. ^ Real Academia Española (1817), Diccionario de la lengua castellana, 5th ed., Madrid: Imprenta Real, p. 872
10. ^ Real Academia Española (1884), Diccionario de la lengua castellana, 12th ed., Madrid: Imprenta de D. Gregorio Hernando (the first Academy edition with etymologies), p. 1064
11. ^ a b Real Academia Española (1899), Diccionario de la lengua castellana, 13th ed., Madrid: Imprenta de los Sres. Hernando y Compañía, p. 998
12. ^ Real Academia Nacional de Medicina (2011), Diccionario de términos médicos, Madrid: Editorial Médica Panamericana; online at https://dtme.ranm.es, p. s.v. urinario
13. ^ Moliner, María (2007), Diccionario de uso del español, 3rd ed., Madrid: Gredos, p. s.v. urinario
14. ^ a b Boyd-Bowman, Peter (2003), Léxico hispanoamericano 1493–1993, ed. Ray Harris-Northall and John J. Nitti, New York: Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies, p. s.v. orinario
15. ^ Battaner Arias, Paz (dir.) (2017), Diccionario general de la lengua española VOX, Barcelona: Larousse Editorial, p. s.v. urinario