English

Noun

vomitus ‎(plural vomita)

1. (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.

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈwo.mi.tus/, [ˈwɔ.mɪ.tʊs]

Participle

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

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

Inflection

First/second declension.

Noun

vomitus m ‎(genitive vomitūs); fourth declension

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

Inflection

Fourth declension.

Descendants

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, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “vomitus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.