Etymology of Toilet (in English), aphedron (in Greek), secessum (withdrawn in Latin)

Greek G856 ἀφεδρών apa-away hedron-seat,settled See Matthew 15:17   Mark 7:19

Modern Hebrew shairutim (services) or bathroom. Translated as mosa-a (mowtsa-ah) H4163 draught house in 2 Kings 10:27 based on H4161 a going forth, watercourse

English Latrine c. 1300, laterin "a privy," probably from Latin latrina, latrinum, a contraction of lavatrina "washbasin, washroom," from lavatus, past participle of lavare "to wash"

Toilet c. 1530s, also toilette, earliest in English in a now-obsolete sense of "cover or bag for clothes," from French toilette "a cloth; a bag for clothes," diminutive of toile "cloth, net". Thence, "a dressing room" (by 1819), especially one with a lavatory attached; thence "lavatory or porcelain plumbing fixture" (1895), an American euphemistic use.

sewer Old French sewiere (“overflow channel for a fishpond”), from Vulgar Latin *exaquāria (“drain for carrying water off”), from Latin ex (“out of, from”) + aquāria (“of or pertaining to waters”).

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