different between vomit vs vomitus

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

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