different between vomit vs vomito

English

Etymology

From Middle English vomiten, from Latin vomit?re, present active infinitive of vomit? (“vomit repeatedly”), frequentative form of vom? (“be sick, vomit”), from Proto-Indo-European *wemh?- (“to spew, vomit”). Cognate with Old Norse váma (“nausea, malaise”), Old English wemman (“to defile”). More at wem.

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: v?m'it, IPA^(key): /?v?m?t/
• Rhymes: -?m?t
• (US) enPR: v?m'it, IPA^(key): /?v?m?t/

Verb

vomit (third-person singular simple present vomits, present participle vomiting, simple past and past participle vomited)

1. (intransitive) To regurgitate or eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth; puke.

   • The fish […] vomited out Jonah upon the dry land.

2. (transitive) To regurgitate and discharge (something swallowed); to spew.
   • 1988, Angela Carter, ‘Peter Carey: Oscar and Lucinda’, in Shaking a Leg, Vintage 2013, p. 713:

     It is the illicit Christmas pudding an incorrigible servant cooks for the little boy one Christmas Day that sparks Oscar's first crisis of belief, for his father, opposed to Christmas pudding on theological grounds, makes the child vomit his helping.

3. To eject from any hollow place; to belch forth; to emit.
   • 1907, E.M. Forster, The Longest Journey, Part I, III [Uniform ed., p. 45-46]:

     "Hullo!" said the athlete, and vomited with this greeting a cloud of tobacco-smoke. It must have been imprisoned in his mouth some time, for no pipe was visible.

   • After about a minute, the creek bed vomited the debris into a gently sloped meadow. Saugstad felt the snow slow and tried to keep her hands in front of her.

Synonyms

Derived terms

• vomitable

Translations

Noun

vomit (usually uncountable, plural vomits)

1. The regurgitated former contents of a stomach; vomitus.
2. The act of regurgitating.
3. (obsolete) That which causes vomiting; an emetic.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:vomit.

Translations

Derived terms

• vomit comet

See also

• emetic

French

Verb

vomit

1. third-person singular present indicative of vomir
2. third-person singular past historic of vomir

Latin

Verb

vomit

1. third-person singular present active indicative of vom?

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [vo?mit]

Verb

vomit

1. first-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of vomita

English

Noun

vomito (countable and uncountable, plural vomitos)

1. The most virulent form of yellow fever.
2. The black vomit associated with the worst form of yellow fever.

Anagrams

• motivo

Asturian

Verb

vomito

1. first-person singular present indicative of vomitar

Catalan

Verb

vomito

1. first-person singular present indicative form of vomitar

Esperanto

Noun

vomito (accusative singular vomiton, plural vomitoj, accusative plural vomitojn)

1. singular past nominal passive participle of vomi

French

Noun

vomito m (plural vomitos)

1. vomito (disease)

Further reading

• “vomito” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Galician

Verb

vomito

1. first-person singular present indicative of vomitar

Interlingua

Noun

vomito (uncountable)

1. vomit

Related terms

• vomitar

Italian

Etymology

From Latin vomitus.

Noun

vomito m (plural vomiti)

1. vomiting, emesis
2. vomit, sick, vomitus

Synonyms

• emesi

Related terms

• vomitare
• vomitata
• vomitativo
• vomizione

Verb

vomito

1. first-person singular present of vomitare

Anagrams

• motivo, motivò

Latin

Etymology

Frequentative of vom? (“spew out”).

Pronunciation

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

Verb

vomit? (present infinitive vomit?re, perfect active vomit?v?, supine vomit?tum); first conjugation, impersonal in the passive

1. I vomit often or repeatedly.

Conjugation

Related terms

Descendants

References

• vomito in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• vomito in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Portuguese

Verb

vomito

1. First-person singular (eu) present indicative of vomitar

Spanish

Verb

vomito

1. First-person singular (yo) present indicative form of vomitar.