latrine
noun/ləˈtriːn/
/ləˈtriːn/
- a toilet in a camp, etc., especially one made by digging a hole in the ground
- We put up the tents and dug a latrine pit.
Word OriginMiddle English (rare before the mid 19th cent.): via French from Latin latrina, contraction of lavatrina, from lavare ‘to wash’.Definitions on the go
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