different between vomitous vs vomitus

English

Pronunciation

• Homophone: vomitus

Etymology

vomit +? -ous

Adjective

vomitous (comparative more vomitous, superlative most vomitous)

1. (US) Characteristic of, or causing one to vomit.

Hyponyms

• (characteristic of, or causing one to vomit): disgusting, loathsome, nauseating, nauseous, odious, repugnant

References

• “vomitous” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.

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