Aphedron

The Greek noun aphedron (ἀφεδρών) is a term for "latrine". The word occurs twice in the New Testament but was unknown in classical texts. The Latin Vulgate rendered the term secessus 'latrine'. Wycliffe avoided the reference to a privy with "and beneath it goeth out", while Martin Luther translated the word as natürliche Gang, though Tyndale's "and goeth out into the draught" is clearer. Perhaps due in part to Luther's "natural course", various 18th- and 19th-century scholars assumed that the word was a euphemism for the human bowel. However, in 1901 the discovery and publication of an inscription at Pergamon confirmed that the word does, as per secessus, in fact mean "latrine".