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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)
- (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.
Translations
matter coughed up and expectorated from the mouth
- Armenian: խորխ (hy) (xorx)
- Bashkir: ҡаҡырыҡ (qaqırıq)
- Bulgarian: храчки (bg) f pl (hrački)
- Catalan: esput m
- Czech: sputum (cs) n, chrchel (cs) m
- Finnish: yskös (fi)
- Galician: esgarro (gl), lapo m
- Georgian: ნერწყვი (nerc̣q̇vi), დორბლი (dorbli), შისველე (šisvele)
- German: Sputum (de) n
- Greek:
- Ancient: πτύσμα n (ptúsma)
- Hungarian: köpet (hu), váladék (hu)
- Khiamniungan Naga: vēuhàk
- Korean: 가래 (ko) (garae)
- Ladino: balgam
- Polish: plwocina (pl) f
- Portuguese: escarro (pt) m
- Russian: мокрота (ru) f (mokrota)
- Spanish: esputo (es) m, escupitajo (es) m, gargajo (es) m, lapo (es) m
- Swahili: balaghamu (sw), kohozi (sw)
- Turkish: balgam (tr)
- Ukrainian: мокроти́ння n (mokrotýnnja), мокро́та f (mokróta)
- Vietnamese: đờm (vi), đàm
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Further reading
- sputum on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- “sputum”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “sputum”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “sputum”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
Czech
Pronunciation
- IPA(key):
- Hyphenation: spu‧tum
Noun
sputum n
- sputum
- Synonyms: chrchel, hlen
Declension
Declension of sputum (hard neuter foreign)
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)
- (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
- spittle
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Descendants
Participle
spūtum
- inflection of spūtus:
- nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular
- 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.