LATIN DICTIONARYLexicon Latīnum
noun · femininefirst declension

ūrīna

ūrīna f (genitive ūrīnae)
Classical[uːˈriː.na]Ecclesiastical[uˈriː.na]

Meaning

  1. urine

Declension

declension
formsingularplural
nominativeūrīnaūrīnae
🝕nae
genitiveūrīnae
🝕nae		ūrīnārum
🝕nārum
dativeūrīnae
🝕nae		ūrīnīs
🝕nīs
accusativeūrīnam
🝕nam		ūrīnās
🝕nās
ablativeūrīnā
🝕nā		ūrīnīs
🝕nīs
vocativeūrīna
🝕na		ūrīnae
🝕nae

ūrīna, ae, f. kindr. with Sanscr. vāri, water; Gr. οὖρον; cf. urna and urceus,
I. urine.
I. Lit., Cic. Fat. 3, 5; Cels. 2, 7; 2, 19; Plin. 24, 11, 56, § 94; 24, 6, 17, § 27; Juv. 6, 313.—Plur., Plin. 24, 13, 71, § 115; Suet. Aug. 80 fin.; id. Ner. 56; id. Vesp. 23; Gell. 19, 4, 3 et saep.—
II. Transf.: genitalis, seed, semen, Plin. 8, 43, 68, § 168; cf.: urina concepta, Juv. 11, 170.—Plur., Veg. Vet. 3, 15, 19.

Origins

From Proto-Italic *ūrīnos (“watery”), from Proto-Indo-European *woh₁-r̥ (“water”), possibly a doublet of *wódr̥ (with the "Kortlandt effect", which posits that *d becomes *h₁ under certain conditions). See also Sanskrit वार् (vā́r, “water”), Avestan 𐬬𐬁𐬭𐬀 (vāra, “rain”).

Certain borrowings
  • Englishurine
  • Frenchurine
  • Portugueseurina
  • Romanianurină
  • Galicianurina
Possibly inherited forms
  • Italianurina
  • Occitanurina
  • Old Catalanurina
  • Friulianurine
Elsewhere
  • Vulgar Latin*aurīna

Quick answers

What does ūrīna mean in Latin?
ūrīna, a noun, means “urine”.
What is the genitive of ūrīna?
The genitive singular is ūrīnae. ūrīna is feminine, first declension.
How do you pronounce ūrīna?
In classical Latin, [uːˈriː.na]; in ecclesiastical (church) Latin, [uˈriː.na].