fecal

• faecal (Commonwealth)
• fæcal (dated)

From Middle French fecal, from Latin faex, equivalent to feces +‎ -al.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfiːkəl/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -iːkəl

fecal (not comparable)

1. Of or relating to feces.
   • 1973, Water Resources Research Catalog - Volume 8, Issue 1, page 732:

     Differential biochemical or physiological characteristics which correlate with aerogenesis at elevated incubation temperatures will be adapted towards a fecal coliform procedure and towards converting a total coliform procedure under development to give a fecal coliform count as well.

   • 2025 August 30, “US beaches warn about water quality due to unsafe levels of fecal contamination this Labor Day weekend”, in CNN‎^[1], sourced from Associated Press:

     Beaches from Crystal River, Florida, to Ogunquit, Maine, have been under advisories warning about water quality this week because of elevated levels of bacteria associated with fecal waste.

• stercoraceous

fecal (not comparable)

1. fecal

fecal m (feminine singular fecale, masculine plural fecaulx, feminine plural fecales)

1. fecal

• Rhymes: (Portugal) -al, (Brazil) -aw
• Hyphenation: fe‧cal

fecal m or f (plural fecais, not comparable)

1. fecal (relating to feces)

• fezes

• “fecal”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “fecal”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Borrowed from French fécal.

fecal m or n (feminine singular fecală, masculine plural fecali, feminine/neuter plural fecale)

1. fecal

• IPA^(key): /feˈkal/ [feˈkal]
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: fe‧cal

fecal m or f (masculine and feminine plural fecales)

1. fecal

• “fecal”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025