sputum
See also: Sputum
English edit
Etymology edit
From New Latin, from Latin sputum (“that which is spit out, spittle”), from spuere (“to spit”).
Noun edit
sputum (countable and uncountable, plural sputums or sputa)
- (physiology) Matter coughed up and expectorated from the mouth, composed of saliva and discharges from the respiratory passages such as mucus, phlegm or pus.
- 2018, Louis Rosenfeld, Four Centuries of Clinical Chemistry:
- In the early 1890s the work in the laboratory consisted of postmortems, urinalyses, and examination of sputums.
- 2020 February 24, James Hamblin, “You’re Likely to Get the Coronavirus”, in The Atlantic[1]:
- At the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, the boy’s sputum sat for a month, waiting for its turn in a slow process of antibody-matching analysis.
Translations edit
matter coughed up and expectorated from the mouth
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Further reading edit
- sputum on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- “sputum”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “sputum”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “sputum”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
Czech edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
sputum n
Declension edit
Further reading edit
Indonesian edit
Etymology edit
Learned borrowing from Latin sputum.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
sputum (first-person possessive sputumku, second-person possessive sputummu, third-person possessive sputumnya)
Further reading edit
- “sputum” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From spuō.
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈspuː.tum/, [ˈs̠puːt̪ʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈspu.tum/, [ˈspuːt̪um]
Noun edit
spūtum n (genitive spūtī); second declension
Declension edit
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | spūtum | spūta |
Genitive | spūtī | spūtōrum |
Dative | spūtō | spūtīs |
Accusative | spūtum | spūta |
Ablative | spūtō | spūtīs |
Vocative | spūtum | spūta |
Related terms edit
Descendants edit
Participle edit
spūtum
- inflection of spūtus:
References edit
- “sputum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “sputum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- sputum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.