>>80059952The guy you're responding to is autistic, but to cover it in case anyone doesn't get it:
We get "evacuate" from the conjunction of the Latin prefix "ex-" or "e-" which means "out of" and "vacuus" which means "empty."
Put them together and you get "evacuare" which means, in its most basic sense, "to make empty."
The Romans DID use this in reference to making empty their bowels, but by the time it made its way to English, the phrase took on its more modern spelling and simply meant "to make empty" or to "remove the contents of."
This is where the word has sat for about the past thousand years.
Just a little etymology trivia for your evening. Or morning as the case may be.
