Latin

Noun

stercus n ‎(genitive stercoris); third declension

1. dung, excrement, ordure

Inflection

Third declension neuter.

Derived terms

• stercorārius
• stercorō

Descendants

• Italian: sterco
• Portuguese: esterco
• Romanian: șterc
• Spanish: estiércol

References

• stercus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• stercus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• STERCUS in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “stercus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.