urine English · revision 16133

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=c. 1325|origins=la ūrīna}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: /ˈjʊəɹɪn/, /ˈjʊəɹaɪn/^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[inh|enm|urine]], [[bor|fro|urine]] (a variant of [[m|fro|orine]]),^(OED 2026)^(Etymonline)^(MED) and directly [[bor|la|ūrīna]].^(Barnhart 1988)^(Etymonline)^(MED) The Latin word is related to [[grc|οὖρον|tr=oûron|t=urine]],^(OED 2026)^(Ayto 2005)^(Klein 1966) and the dictionaries trace both to an Indo-European root for water or rain, [[ine-pro|*wer-]],^(Klein 1966)^(AHD 2024)^(Barnhart 1988) seen in [[sa|वार्|tr=vār|t=water]], [[lv|jūra|t=sea]], [[non|úr|t=drizzle]] and [[ang|wær|t=sea]].^(Klein 1966)^(Etymonline)^(Barnhart 1988) Barnhart suggests the Latin noun was formed after [[m|la|ūrīnor|t=to plunge into water]].^(Barnhart 1988)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The fluid discharged from the bladder: about 1325, in a political song.^(OED 2026) Barnhart dates it probably before 1300.^(Barnhart 1988)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ In medieval medicine urine was a main tool of diagnosis, and the Middle English Dictionary has separate senses for it as a product of digestion and as a sign examined by physicians.^(MED)^(Etymonline) The verb, to urinate, appears in Ben Jonson's ''Volpone'' (1607),^(OED 2026) beside ''[[urinate]]'', from the 16th century.^(Hoad 1986)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * before 1200 – ''[[urinal]]'', a container for urine.^(Barnhart 1988)

+ * c. 1325 – the fluid.^(OED 2026)

+ * 1483 – ''a urine'', a sample, with plural.^(OED 2026)

+ * 16th century – ''urinary'' and ''urinate''.^(Hoad 1986)

+ * 1607 – the verb, to urinate.^(OED 2026)

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+ ==Modern meaning==

+ ===Noun===

+ # The usually pale yellow liquid containing waste products, made by the [[kidney|alt=kidneys]], stored in the [[bladder]] and passed out of the body.^(AHD 2024)^(Collins 2023)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[urinous]]

+ * [[urinal]]

+ * [[uric]]

+ * [[uriniferous]]

+ * [[urinometer]]

+ * [[urinalysis]]

+ * [[urinary]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[urea]]

+ * [[ureter]]

+ * [[urethra]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}