different between emesis vs vomitus

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ?????? (émesis), from ???? (emé?, “vomit”). Compare ?????? (émetos, “vomit”, noun).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??m?s?s/
• Hyphenation: em?e?sis

Noun

emesis (countable and uncountable, plural emeses)

1. (pathology) The act or process of vomiting.

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• missee

Spanish

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ?????? (émesis), from ???? (emé?, “vomit”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /e?mesis/, [e?me.sis]

Noun

emesis f (plural emesis)

1. (medicine) emesis, vomit

   Synonym: vómito

Further reading

“emesis” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

English

Etymology

From Latin vomitus

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 vom? (“vomit forth”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?u?o.mi.tus/, [?u??m?t??s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?vo.mi.tus/, [?v??mit?us]

Participle

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

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

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Noun

vomitus m (genitive vomit?s); fourth declension

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

Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

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)
• vomitus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette