stool

stool
subs.
Small chair: P. σκολύθριον, τό (Plat.).
Chair: Ar. and P. δίφρος, ὁ.

STOOL

A low seat sellula (Tac.): sedecula (Cic.): subsellium: scabellum (a foot-stool).

Natural evacuation of the bowels alvus. To go to stool alvum exonerare (Plin.): necessitati or naturae parere; secedere ad exonerandum corpus (Sen. Ep. 70 17). To have a stool alvum dejicere (Cic.) solvere exinanire (Celsus).

stool:

I. A low seat:

1. scăbellum (strictly, for stepping on to a bed or couch, from scando): Varr. L. L. 5, 35, 168: Quint.

2. sellŭla (any small seat): v. SEAT.

II. A close-s.: sella pertūsa: Cato R. R. 157: called also, s. familiarica, Varr. R. R. 1, 13, med.: and simply, sella, Scrib.

III. Euphemistically, evacuation by the bowels:

1. alvus, i, f.: watery, pale-coloured, black s.s, a. liquida, pallida, nigra, Cels. 2, 6, med.: to promote s.s, alvos elicere, Plin.

2. expr. by circuml., quod descendit, quod excernitur: Cels. 2, 4, extr. Phr.: to go to s., ventrem exonerare, Suet. Vesp. 20: corpus ex., Sen. Ep. 70, 17: alvum ex., Plin. 10, 44, 61 (de avibus): ad requisita naturae discedere (to go aside for the purpose), Spart. Carac. 6: more coarsely, cacare, Hor.: Mart.

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appearing fewer than 50 times

προσκυνητήριον
stool for kneeling at prayer
σκολύθριον
stool
σκωραμίς
night-stool
σκόλυθρον
stool
τίλημα
a thin stool
τῖλος
a thin stool (diarrhea)
ἀφοδευτήριον
night-stool
ἀφοδευτικός
night-stool
ἕδρη
seat, stool
ὀκλαδίας
a folding-chair, camp-stool

sella
a seat, settle, chair, stool
cathedra
a chair, stool, cushioned seat, arm-chair

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appearing fewer than 50 times

scamnum
a bench, stool, step
sedecula
a little seat, low stool
sedile
that may be sat on, a seat, bench, stool, chair

Stool

See scabellum.