Urinative

Part of speech: adjective

Definitions

1. Pertaining to or associated with the process of producing or excreting urine
2. Connected with the bodily function of urine formation and elimination
3. Describing anything involved in or relating to the secretion and discharge of urine

Etymology: "Urinative" is a plain formation: the noun "urine" with the adjectival suffix "-ative", which turns a noun into a word describing something connected with it. "Urine" itself came into English from Old French "urine," borrowed from Latin "urina," the same root that gives us the English word "urinate." The suffix "-ative" is inherited through French from Latin "-ativus," and it appears in many technical adjectives such as "curative" and "operative." Because "urinative" is built directly from these parts, its meaning follows straight from them: a urinative process or organ is one that produces or discharges urine. It is a specialist term, used mainly in physiology and medicine, where writers needed a single adjective to cover the whole business of urine secretion and release rather than naming each organ separately.

Synonyms: urinary, excretory, eliminative