commode

Borrowed from French commode.

commode (plural commodes)

1. A low chest of drawers on short legs.
2. A stand for a washbowl and jug.
3. (euphemistic) A chair containing a chamber pot.
4. (euphemistic) A toilet.
5. (historical) A kind of woman's headdress, raising the hair and fore part of the cap to a great height.
   • Granville

     Or under high commodes, with looks erect.

• (chamber pot): See Thesaurus:chamber pot
• (toilet): See Thesaurus:toilet

• discommode, incommode
• bidet

Borrowed from Latin commodus.

• IPA^(key): /kɔ.mɔd/

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commode (plural commodes)

1. convenient (of or pertaining to convenience; simple; easy; expedient)

• accommoder
• incommode
  • incommoder

• German: kommod

commode f (plural commodes)

1. chest of drawers, commode
2. (Louisiana) toilet

• German: Kommode
• Italian: comodino

• “commode” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• IPA^(key): /ˈkom.mo.de/

commode

1. comfortable

commode

1. vocative masculine singular of commodus

commodē (comparative commodius, superlative commodissimē)

1. conveniently
2. aptly, suitably

• commode in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• commode in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• commode in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) to indulge in apt witticisms: facete et commode dicere
    
  • (ambiguous) a short, pointed witticism: breviter et commode dictum
    

Borrowed from French commode.

commode f (plural commodes)

1. (Jersey) tallboy