different between digestive vs flatulate

English

Etymology

From Old French digestif, from Late Latin d?gest?vus. Doublet of digestif.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /da??d??st?v/

Adjective

digestive (comparative more digestive, superlative most digestive)

1. Of, relating to, or functioning in digestion.
2. That causes or promotes digestion.

   • While the doctor and the natives were taking a digestive nap after dinner, I strolled forth to have a peep at the country which could produce so generous a meal.

Translations

Noun

digestive (plural digestives)

1. A substance that aids digestion.
2. (Britain, Ireland, Canada) A digestive biscuit.

Translations

German

Adjective

digestive

1. inflection of digestiv:
   1. strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
   2. strong nominative/accusative plural
   3. weak nominative all-gender singular
   4. weak accusative feminine/neuter singular

Italian

Adjective

digestive

1. feminine plural of digestivo

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /di?.?es?ti?.u?e/, [d?i???s??t?i?u??]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /di.d??es?ti.ve/, [d?id???s?t?i?v?]

Adjective

d?gest?ve

1. vocative masculine singular of d?gest?vus

English

Etymology

Back-formation from flatulence, attested since the 19th century; ultimately of Latin origin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?flætj?le?t/, /?flæt??le?t/

Verb

flatulate (third-person singular simple present flatulates, present participle flatulating, simple past and past participle flatulated)

1. To emit digestive gases from the anus, especially with accompanying sound and smell.
   • 1985, James L. Framo, “Rationale and Techniques of Intensive Family Therapy,” in Intensive Family Therapy, Ivan Boszormenyi-Nagy and James L. Framo eds. [1],

     Where else but in his own castle, with his own family, can a person pick his nose, flatulate, lose his temper with impunity, whine, let the child in him emerge—in short, regress and “be himself”?

Usage notes

Garner's Modern English Usage (4th ed) has an entry for flatulate, discussing the attestation history and lexicographic coverage of this verb and some of its synonyms. As with the other main bodily functions (such as urination, defecation, and vomiting), register governs the choice of synonym in a given context; flatulate serves formal registers well (such as in medical publications), whereas fart, although it is easily English's dominant synonym of the semantic field for this concept, is usually considered a casualism suited only to informal registers. Thus flatulate is to fart as urinate is to piss and as defecate is to shit.

Synonyms

• See fart § Synonyms
• See also Thesaurus:flatulate

Coordinate terms

• queef

Derived terms

• flatulation

Translations