sputum

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See also: Sputum

English

Etymology

From New Latin, from Latin sputum (that which is spit out, spittle), from spuere (to spit).

Pronunciation

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Noun

sputum (countable and uncountable, plural sputums or sputa)

  1. (physiology) Matter coughed up and expectorated from the mouth, composed of saliva and discharges from the respiratory passages such as mucus, phlegm or pus.
    • 2018, Louis Rosenfeld, Four Centuries of Clinical Chemistry:
      In the early 1890s the work in the laboratory consisted of postmortems, urinalyses, and examination of sputums.
    • 2020 February 24, James Hamblin, “You’re Likely to Get the Coronavirus”, in The Atlantic:
      At the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, the boy’s sputum sat for a month, waiting for its turn in a slow process of antibody-matching analysis.

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Further reading

Czech

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key):
  • Hyphenation: spu‧tum

Noun

sputum n

  1. sputum
    Synonyms: chrchel, hlen

Declension

Further reading

  • sputum”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
  • sputum”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
  • sputum”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)

Indonesian

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin sputum.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key):
  • Hyphenation: spu‧tum

Noun

sputum (plural sputum-sputum)

  1. (medicine) sputum.
    Synonyms: balgam, dahak
    Pemeriksaan sputum penting dilakukan untuk mendiagnosis berbagai penyakit pernafasan.Sputum examination is important for diagnosis of many respiratory diseases.

Further reading

Latin

Etymology

From spuō.

Pronunciation

Noun

spūtum n (genitive spūtī); second declension

  1. spittle

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

singular plural
nominative spūtum spūta
genitive spūtī spūtōrum
dative spūtō spūtīs
accusative spūtum spūta
ablative spūtō spūtīs
vocative spūtum spūta

Descendants

  • Catalan: esput
  • Dalmatian: spoit
  • English: sputum
  • Italian: sputo
  • Old French: esput
  • Portuguese: esputo
  • Romanian: spută
  • Spanish: esputo

Participle

spūtum

  1. inflection of spūtus:
    1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular
    2. accusative masculine singular

References

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