vomitus
English
Etymology
From Latin vomitus.
Pronunciation
- Homophone: vomitous
Noun
vomitus (plural vomita)
- (medicine) vomit, the product of an emesis.
- 1905, California State Board of Health, Monthly Bulletin (page 70)
- Every observant mother has learned the importance of noting the character of her baby's vomitus, the color of its stools, the evidence of inflation of its stomach, etc.
- 1905, California State Board of Health, Monthly Bulletin (page 70)
Latin
Etymology
Perfect passive participle of vomō (“vomit forth”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈu̯o.mi.tus/, [ˈu̯ɔmɪt̪ʊs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈvo.mi.tus/, [ˈvɔːmit̪us]
Participle
vomitus (feminine vomita, neuter vomitum); first/second-declension participle
- vomited up or forth, discharged, emitted, having been vomited up
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | vomitus | vomita | vomitum | vomitī | vomitae | vomita | |
| Genitive | vomitī | vomitae | vomitī | vomitōrum | vomitārum | vomitōrum | |
| Dative | vomitō | vomitō | vomitīs | ||||
| Accusative | vomitum | vomitam | vomitum | vomitōs | vomitās | vomita | |
| Ablative | vomitō | vomitā | vomitō | vomitīs | |||
| Vocative | vomite | vomita | vomitum | vomitī | vomitae | vomita | |
Noun
vomitus m (genitive vomitūs); fourth declension
- The act of throwing up or vomiting.
- That which is thrown up by vomiting; sick, vomit.
Declension
Fourth-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | vomitus | vomitūs |
| Genitive | vomitūs | vomituum |
| Dative | vomituī | vomitibus |
| Accusative | vomitum | vomitūs |
| Ablative | vomitū | vomitibus |
| Vocative | vomitus | vomitūs |
Descendants
- Catalan: vòmit
- English: vomitus
- French: vomi
- Italian: vomito
- Portuguese: vômito
- Spanish: vómito
References
- “vomitus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “vomitus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- vomitus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- vomitus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette