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Origin and history of urinary

urinary(adj.)

"of or pertaining to urine," 1570s, from Modern Latin urinarius, from Latin urina (see urine). Urinative "causing urination, diuretic" is from early 15c.

also from 1570s

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urine(n.)

"waste product of the digestive system normally discharged from the bladder," also as a diagnostic tool in medicine and an ingredient in household preparations, c. 1300, from Old French orine, urine (12c.) and directly from Latin urina "urine," from PIE *ur-, which is regarded as the source also of Greek ouron "urine." It is held to be a variant of root *we-r- "water, liquid, milk" (source also of Sanskrit var "water," Avestan var "rain," Lithuanian jūrės "sea," Old English wær, Old Norse ver "sea," Old Norse ur "drizzling rain"), which is related to *eue-dh-r (see udder).

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    1530s, "companionship, friendly association with others," from Old French societe "company" (12c., Modern French société), from Latin societatem (nominative societas) "fellowship, association, alliance, union, community," from socius "companion, ally," from PIE *sokw-yo-, suffixe
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    c. 1300, "earth, air, fire, or water; one of the four things regarded by the ancients as the constituents of all things," from Old French element (10c.), from Latin elementum "rudiment, first principle, matter in its most basic form" (translating Greek stoikheion), origin and ori
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