different between nausea vs retch

English

Etymology

From Middle English nausea, a borrowing from Latin nausea, from Ancient Greek ?????? (nausía, “sea-sickness”), from ???? (naûs, “ship”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?n??z??/, /?n??s??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?n?zi.?/, /?n?si.?/, /?n???/, /?n???/
• (US, cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /?n?zi.?/, /?n?si.?/, /?n???/, /?n???/
• Rhymes: -??zi?
• Hyphenation: nau?sea

Noun

nausea (countable and uncountable, plural nauseas or nauseae or nauseæ)

1. A feeling of illness or discomfort in the digestive system, usually characterized by a strong urge to vomit.
2. Strong dislike or disgust.
3. Motion sickness.

Derived terms

• nauseate
• nauseous

Translations

Further reading

• nausea on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin nausea, nausia, from Ancient Greek ?????? (nausía, “seasickness”), from ???? (naûs, “ship”).

Pronunciation

Noun

nausea f (plural nausee)

1. nausea

Derived terms

• nausea mattutina
• nauseabondo / nauseante
• nauseare
• nauseato

Verb

nausea

1. third-person singular present of nauseare
2. second-person singular imperative of nauseare

Latin

Etymology 1

Alternative forms

• nausia

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?nau?.se.a/, [?näu?s?eä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?nau?.se.a/, [?n??u?s??]

Noun

nausea f (genitive nauseae); first declension

1. nausea
2. seasickness

Declension

First-declension noun.

Descendants

• ? English: nausea
• ? Italian: nausea
• ? Portuguese: náusea
• ? Spanish: náusea

Etymology 2

Verb

nause?

1. second-person singular present active imperative of nause?

References

• nausea in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• nausea in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• nausea in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??t?/
• Rhymes: -?t?
• Homophone: wretch

Etymology 1

From Middle English *recchen, *rechen (attested in arechen), hræcen, from Old English hr??an (“to clear the throat, hawk, spit”), from Proto-West Germanic *hr?kijan, from Proto-Germanic *hr?kijan? (“to clear one's throat”), from Proto-Indo-European *kreg- (“to caw, crow”). Cognate with Icelandic hrækja (“to hawk, spit”), Limburgish räöke (“to induce vomiting”). Also related with German Rachen (“throat”).

Alternative forms

• reach (archaic or dialectal)

Verb

retch (third-person singular simple present retches, present participle retching, simple past and past participle retched)

1. To make an unsuccessful effort to vomit; to strain, as in vomiting.
   • 1819-1824, Lord Byron, Don Juan

     Here he grew inarticulate with retching.

Translations

Noun

retch (plural retches)

1. An unsuccessful effort to vomit.

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English recchen (“to care; heed”), from Old English r???an, variant of r??an (“to care; reck”), from Proto-Germanic *r?kijan? (“to care”), from Proto-Indo-European *re?- (“straight, right, just”).

Verb

retch (third-person singular simple present retches, present participle retching, simple past and past participle retched)

1. (transitive, intransitive, obsolete) To reck

Related terms

• retchless

Etymology 3

From Middle English recchen, from Old English re??an (“to stretch, extend”), from Proto-West Germanic *rakkjan, from Proto-Germanic *rakjan? (“to straighten, stretch”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?ro?éyeti.

Verb

retch (third-person singular simple present retches, present participle retching, simple past and past participle retched or (obsolete) raught)

1. (dialectal) to reach

Anagrams

• chert