English edit

Etymology edit

From Latin vomitus.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

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 edit

Latin edit

Etymology edit

Perfect passive participle of vomō (vomit forth).

Pronunciation edit

Participle edit

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

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

Declension edit

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 edit

vomitus m (genitive vomitūs); fourth declension

  1. The act of throwing up or vomiting.
  2. That which is thrown up by vomiting; sick, vomit.

Declension edit

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 edit

  • Catalan: vòmit
  • English: vomitus
  • French: vomi
  • Italian: vomito
  • Portuguese: vômito
  • Spanish: vómito

References edit

  • 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