sputum

English

Etymology

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

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.

Translations

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

1. sputum

   Synonyms: chrchel, hlen

Declension

Further reading

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

Indonesian

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin sputum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):
• Hyphenation: spu‧tum

Noun

sputum (first-person possessive sputumku, second-person possessive sputummu, third-person possessive sputumnya)

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

• “sputum” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

Latin

Etymology

From spuō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈspuː.tum/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈspu.tum/,

Noun

spūtum n (genitive spūtī); second declension

1. spittle

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Related terms

• sputō

Descendants

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.