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septic (adj.)
c. 1600, from Latin
septicus
"of or pertaining to putrefaction," from Greek
septikos
"characterized by putrefaction," from
sepein
"make rotten or putrid, cause to rot" (see
sepsis
).
Septic tank
is attested from 1902.
