vomitus

From Latin vomitus.

• Homophone: vomitous

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.

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

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈu̯o.mi.tus/, [ˈu̯ɔmɪt̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈvo.mi.tus/, [ˈvɔːmit̪us]

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

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

First/second-declension adjective.

vomitus m (genitive vomitūs); fourth declension

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

Fourth-declension noun.

• “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.