The word Enema in other languages

It is "clisma" in romanian.

A rather neutral and medical sounding term in Dutch would be: 'darm spoeling' - which translates as intestinal rinse.

It seems to be preferably used in hospitals and is preferred to the (Belgian Dutch) popular term of 'lavement' (pronounced very vulgarly as 'lavemengt', which is somehow associated with something very unpleasant and messy.

By using 'rinse' it sounds more like something you do after washing your hair ... nothing very unpleasant.

I've always loved the Spanish word 'lavativa'.

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I've always loved the Spanish word 'lavativa'.

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In Italian, 'lavativa' means 'lazy-butt girl'.

In other words, someone who ought to be given a punishment enema for being such a slacker! 😄

Exxon Oil was named Enco back in the mid 70's then suddenly changed to Exxon, with the rumor back then that their previous name had to do with enema in some language.

Exxon Oil was named Enco back in the mid 70's then suddenly changed to Exxon, with the rumor back then that their previous name had to do with enema in some language.

A number of oil companies merged and/or had their names changed in the early 1970s. ESSO in the Northeast was another that became an EXXON company. I think Enco was in the west. I don't think Esso was changed because of enemas.

The change to Exxon was due to a lot of industry and court battles. There was a Governor named Exon in some state and so the oil company added an extra "x" and created a brand that wasn't a real word to eliminate confusion.

ESSO was started by John D Rockefeller in, I believe, the 1920's and his company started the Rockefeller fortune. ESSO is an acronym for Eastern States Standard Oil and grew to near monoply proportions in the 1950's and 1960's. The logo for the corporation was the flying horse, Pegasus. Later in the 1970's, the Federal Government invoked the Sherman Anti-trust act and split the company in two from which came Exxon. More recently, Exxon purchased ESSO and the two are now one company again. I would encourage anyone who reads this post to look up ESSO and Exxon on the internet and confirm for themselves the varsity of what I have written above.

Now, please, lets get back to enemas which are a much better pass time because An enema a day keeps the Doctor away. The corollary to that is that if you don't have an enema a day, you will keep everyone away!

73

Bill/K2MMW

. . . .ESSO is an acronym for Eastern States Standard Oil and grew to near monoply proportions in the 1950's and 1960's. The logo for the corporation was the flying horse, Pegasus. Later in the 1970's, the Federal Government invoked the Sherman Anti-trust act and split the company in two from which came Exxon. More recently, Exxon purchased ESSO and the two are now one company again. . . .

PEGASUS was MOBIL oil.

Susie, you are correct as usual. Pegasus was Mobil. And thank you for correcting me.

There was never a company called Eastern States Standard Oil. The former Jersey Standard became Esso, then Enco and then Exxon. A number of the companies spun off from Jersey Standard (after the 1911 antitrust decision) objected to the use of Esso because it was too suggestive of Standard Oil.

Mmmm..... Enemas and languages - my two favourite things, and all rolled into one topic - irresistible!!! 😁

Joe53 asks -

Does any one know what it is in Latin?

Michael2 replies -

Enema is the Latin spelling...The plural is Enemata....

True Michael2 - Enema(ta) = EN+iemi is the Late Latin, from classical Greek hiemi (send)/iemi (inject).

But - Classical Latin for enema is clyster (also derived from the Greek - kluzo = to wash out)

Clyster or clister was also used both as a noun and a verb in English until relatively recently (to clyster meaning to administer an enema)

And no, they didn't teach me that at school lol. 😉

Exxon and Mobil are one company now, this is where the pegasus came from.

Bill