cesspool

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• /ˈsɛsˌpuːl/
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From earlier sesspool. Origin uncertain. Perhaps from Italian cesso (“privy, a toilet”) + English pool. Alternatively, an alteration of English dialectal suspool, from suss, soss (“a puddle; mire”) + pool. Another possible derivation is from a folk etymology (influence from pool) from earlier cesperalle, alteration of Middle English suspiral, from Middle French souspirail (“an air hole”), from soupirer, souspirer (“to sigh, breathe”), from Latin suspirare.

57 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: بِئْر تَسْرِيب (biʔr tasrīb) — place for sewage
• Arabic: بَيَّارَة صَرْف — place for sewage
• Arabic: بَالُوعَة (bālūʕa) — place for sewage
• Chinese Mandarin: 糞池 /粪池 (fènchí) — place for sewage
• Chinese Mandarin: 糞坑 /粪坑 (fènkēng) — place for sewage
• Chinese Mandarin: 污水池 (wūshuǐchí) — place for sewage
• Czech: žumpa — place for sewage
• Dutch: beerput — place for sewage
• Finnish: likakaivo — place for sewage
• Finnish: likavesikaivo — place for sewage
• French: fosse d’aisance — place for sewage
• French: fosse — place for sewage
• German: Sickergrube — place for sewage
• German: Versitzgrube — place for sewage
• German: Senkgrube — place for sewage
• Greek: βόθρος (vóthros) — place for sewage
• Greek: καταβόθρα (katavóthra) — place for sewage
• Hungarian: pöcegödör — place for sewage
• Hungarian: emésztőgödör — place for sewage
• Hungarian: űrgödör — place for sewage
• Italian: pozzo nero — place for sewage
• Italian: fossa biologica — place for sewage
• Italian: fogna — place for sewage
• Italian: cesso alla turca — place for sewage
• Maltese: ħarrajja — place for sewage
• Polish: szambo — place for sewage
• Portuguese: fossa — place for sewage
• Russian: выгребна́я я́ма (vygrebnája jáma) — place for sewage
• Russian: сто́чный коло́дец (stóčnyj kolódec) — place for sewage
• Scottish Gaelic: poll-caca — place for sewage
• Serbo-Croatian: septička jama — place for sewage
• Slovak: žumpa — place for sewage
• Spanish: pozo negro — place for sewage
• Spanish: pozo ciego — place for sewage
• Spanish: fosa séptica — place for sewage
• Swedish: avloppsbrunn — place for sewage
• Swedish: kloakbrunn — place for sewage
• Tagalog: poso siyego — place for sewage
• Tagalog: poso syego — place for sewage
• Turkish: mezbele — place for sewage
• Volapük: jiedotasep — place for sewage
• Chinese Mandarin: 污穢的地方 /污秽的地方 (wūhuì de dìfang) — filthy place
• Finnish: läävä — filthy place
• French: cloaque — filthy place
• French: porcherie — filthy place
• German: Sumpf — filthy place
• Hungarian: pöcegödör — filthy place
• Italian: fogna — filthy place
• Polish: szambo — filthy place
• Portuguese: chiqueiro — filthy place
• Russian: клоа́ка (kloáka) — filthy place
• Spanish: cloaca — filthy place
• Spanish: sentina — filthy place
• Swedish: träsk — filthy place
• Swedish: dypöl — filthy place
• Swedish: kloak — filthy place
• Turkish: bok çukuru — filthy place