Solid bodily waste matter that is eliminated from the bowels; also spelled 'feces' in American English.
From Latin 'faeces' or 'faex,' meaning 'dregs' or 'sediment.' The word originally described the waste or leftover material, similar to how wine dregs settle at the bottom of a barrel.
The Romans used the same word for wine sediment and human waste—both are things you want to remove and get rid of, which is why the metaphor made perfect sense to them!
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