urine
/ˈjʊɹɪn/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.84 in modern English
5
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic the way real kidneys cleanse blood and eject impurities and surplus water as urine."
- "He got out of bed every time he urined, or tried to urine."
Etymology
From Middle English uryne, from Latin ūrīna (“urine”), from Proto-Indo-European *uh₁r-, zero grade of *woh₁-r̥ (“water, liquid, milk”). Related to *h₁ówHdʰr̥ (“udder”) (see udder). Cognate with Old English ūriġ (“wet, moist”). Displaced native English land (“urine”) (from Middle English land, from Old English hland (“urine”)), though lant survives with a specialized sense.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: uryne, ūrīna, *uh₁r-
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈjʊɹɪn/
- British English: /ˈjʊəɹɪn/