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urinator¹

  • /ˈjʊəɹɪˌneɪtə/ UK
  • /ˈjʊəɹɪˌneɪtɚ/ US
  • [-ɾɚ] US

Where it comes from

From urinate + -or (suffix forming an agent noun, indicating a person who does something).

noun urinators · urinater

  1. A person who urinates. [In The Strawberry Statement (1969)] James Simon Kunen chronicled his role as an activist at Columbia University during the student takeover of several campus buildings. He overcame police barricades, climbed through windows, and joined his fellows in occupying the offices of President Grayson Kirk.

urinator²

  • /ˈjʊəɹɪˌneɪtə/ UK
  • /ˈjʊəɹɪˌneɪtɚ/ US
  • [-ɾɚ] US

Where it comes from

From Latin ūrīnātor (“diver”), from ūrīnārī + -tor (suffix forming a (masculine) agent noun). Ūrīnārī is the present active infinitive of ūrīnor (“to plunge under water, dive”), possibly from ūrīna (“urine; water (?)”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wer- (“to moisten; to flow”).

noun urinators

  1. obsolete A diver, especially someone who searches for things underwater. But above all, the diſcovery of ſubmarine treaſures is more eſpecially conſiderable, not only in regard of what hath been drowned by wrecks, but the ſeveral precious things that grow there, as Pearl, Coral Mines, with innumerable other things of great value, which may be much more eaſily found out,

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noun diver — see also diver

Françaisurinateur

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@misc{urinator_2026,
  title = {urinator},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/urinator},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}