vomitus

English

Etymology

From Latin vomitus.

Pronunciation

• Homophone: vomitous

Noun

vomitus (plural vomita)

1. (medicine) Vomit (the product of an emesis).
   • 1905, Monthly Bulletin, California State Board of Health, 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.

   • 1991, Eric J Cassell, The Nature of Suffering and the Goals of Medicine, Oxford University Press, page 112:

     Or, in sorrow, he might have started drinking one night, become intoxicated, vomited, aspirated the vomitus into his lungs, and developed a lung abcess or aspiration pneumonia.

Derived terms

• coffee ground vomitus

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈwɔ.mɪ.tʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈvɔː.mi.tus]

Etymology 1

Perfect passive participle of vomō (“to vomit”).

Participle

vomitus (feminine vomita, neuter vomitum); first/second-declension participle

1. vomited up or forth, discharged, emitted, having been vomited up

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	vomitus	vomita	vomitum		vomitī	vomitae	vomita
genitive	vomitī	vomitae	vomitī		vomitōrum	vomitārum	vomitōrum
dative	vomitō	vomitae	vomitō		vomitīs
accusative	vomitum	vomitam	vomitum		vomitōs	vomitās	vomita
ablative	vomitō	vomitā	vomitō		vomitīs
vocative	vomite	vomita	vomitum		vomitī	vomitae	vomita

Etymology 2

From vomō +‎ -tus (forming action nouns).

Noun

vomitus m (genitive vomitūs); fourth declension

1. a throwing up, the act of vomiting
2. that which is thrown up by vomiting; sick, vomit

Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	vomitus	vomitūs
genitive	vomitūs	vomituum
dative	vomituī	vomitibus
accusative	vomitum	vomitūs
ablative	vomitū	vomitibus
vocative	vomitus	vomitūs

Descendants

• Old Leonese: gómito
  • Asturian: gómitu
• → Asturian: vómitu
• 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, 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.