{"id":11659,"date":"2012-06-19T03:23:21","date_gmt":"2012-06-19T10:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/?p=11659"},"modified":"2012-06-19T03:23:21","modified_gmt":"2012-06-19T10:23:21","slug":"where-the-word-latrine-comes-from","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2012\/06\/where-the-word-latrine-comes-from\/","title":{"rendered":"Where the Word “Latrine” Comes From"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The term “latrine” comes from the Latin “lavare”, which means “to wash”.\u00a0 The earliest references to this word being used in English goes all the way back to the mid-17th century.<\/p>\n

As an aside, the term “toilet” comes from the French “toilette”, meaning “dressing room”.\u00a0 “Toilette” in turn derives from the French “toile”, meaning “cloth”.\u00a0 During the 17th century, the toilet was simply the process of getting dressed, fixing your hair, applying make-up and the like.\u00a0 This gradually began to refer to the items around where someone was groomed, such as the table and powder bottles.\u00a0 In the 19th century in America, this term began referring to both the room where people got dressed and ready for the day, as well as the device now most commonly known as the toilet.<\/p>\n

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The term “latrine” comes from the Latin “lavare”, which means “to wash”.\u00a0 The earliest references to this word being used in English goes all the way back to the mid-17th century. As an aside, the term “toilet” comes from the French “toilette”, meaning “dressing room”.\u00a0 “Toilette” in turn derives from the French “toile”, meaning “cloth”.\u00a0 During the 17th century, the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11660,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[689],"tags":[2746,2747,702],"class_list":["post-11659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-quick-facts","tag-etymology-latrine","tag-etymology-of-toilet","tag-language-facts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11659"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11662,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11659\/revisions\/11662"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}