bathroom
→
toilet
7 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
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Comment
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | English | |
| Lexeme | bathroom | |
| Meaning 1 | a room containing a shower and/or bathtub, and (typically but not necessarily) a toilet | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | (chiefly US, South Africa, Canada, euphemistic) a lavatory: a room containing a toilet and (typically but not necessarily) a bathtub. | |
| Reference | <personally collected data> | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | English | |
| Lexeme | lavatory | |
| Meaning 1 | (dated) A washroom: a room used for washing the face and hands | Even the lavatory, a vestibule to the refectory through which the novices would pass on their way to the recreation room, boasted a painting cycle. (2003, Gauvin A. Bailey, Between Renaissance and Baroque: Jesuit Art in Rome, 1565-1610) |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | (euphemistic) a room containing a toilet | People needing to use the lavatory often ask to use the baño in a restaurant; toilet paper is rarely available, so the experienced traveler always carries a personal supply. (2003, Rob Rachowiecki & al., Ecuador and the Galápagos Islands) |
| Reference | <personally collected data> | |
| Comment | From Late Latin lavatorium washroom or place, particularly a lavatorium - communal washing area in a monastery. | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Derivation | |
| Language | Kali'na (Carib) | |
| Lexeme 1 | kupi | |
| Lexeme 2 | wekupitopo | |
| Meaning 1 | bath | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | toilet | |
| Reference | World Loanword Database | |
| Comment | we-kupi-topo [INTR-bath-NMLZ.LOC] | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 4 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Otomi | |
| Lexeme | nguu nsaha | |
| Meaning 1 | lit. house bath | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | toilet | |
| Reference | World Loanword Database | |
| Comment | nguu = house; nsaha = bath | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 5 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Spanish | |
| Lexeme | baño | |
| Meaning 1 | bathroom | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | toilet | |
| Reference | DRAE | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 6 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Spanish | |
| Lexeme | lavabo | |
| Meaning 1 | bathroom sink, washbasin | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | toilet | |
| Reference | DRAE | |
| Comment | Borrowed from Latin lavabo 'I will wash' (lavabo inter innocentes manus meas 'I will wash my hands among the innocents', words from Psalm 26 that the priest pronounced while washing his hands before the consecration, of which the first ended up designating the container in which he did so') | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 7 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Thai | |
| Lexeme | hɔ̂ŋnáam (ห้องน้ำ) | |
| Meaning 1 | bathroom | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | toilet | |
| Reference | World Loanword Database | |
| Comment | hɔ̂ŋ-náam 'room-water' | |