excrementum

Latin > English (Lewis & Short)

excrēmentum: i, n. excerno.
I What is sifted out, the refuse, Col. 8, 5, 25; Pall. Febr. 26, 3; id. Nov. 20, 4.—More freq.,
II What passes from the body, excrement, ordure, Plin. 11, 26, 32, § 94; 9, 45, 68, § 147: oris, spittle, Tac. H. 4, 81: narium, mucus of the nose, id. A. 16, 4.
excrēmentum: i, n. excresco,
I an elevation, prominence: humilior inter excrementa costarum spina, Sid. Ep. 1, 2.—
II Transf., of numbers which increase regularly in series: sic decem milia ceteraque excrementa, Mart. Cap. 7, § 734.