vomo Latin · revision 31794

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=inherited|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=ine-pro *wemh₁-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈwɔ.moː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈvɔː.mo]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''vomō''' (present infinitive vomere, perfect active vomuī, supine vomitum); third conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[inh|itc-pro|*wemō|alt=*weme/o-]], [[inh|ine-pro|*wemh₁-|alt=*uemh1-|t=to vomit]]; the old root present was made thematic in Latin.^(de Vaan 2008) Cognate with [[sa|वमिति|tr=vámiti|t=vomits]], [[grc|ἐμέω|tr=eméō|t=to vomit]] and [[lt|vémti|t=to vomit]].^(de Vaan 2008)^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan dates it from Plautus,^(de Vaan 2008) whose ''Casina'' has “go away, unless you want me to be sick today!”.^(OLD 2012) Ennius already has the Tiber pouring into the salt sea.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means “to vomit, be sick”, and transitively to throw up food or blood, as Virgil's bull vomiting blood mixed with foam.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Lewis and Short note vomiting as a common Roman way of renewing the appetite.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Of things it is “to pour or belch out”, of rivers into the sea and of Etna's fire.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ Church Latin glosses it “vomit”.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of being sick.^(OLD 2012)^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 204–169 BC – Ennius of the Tiber pouring into the sea.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil of a bull vomiting blood.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|vomit]], be sick.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # To vomit up, [[m|en|spew]] out.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Of things, to pour or [[m|en|belch]] out, discharge.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[vomāx]]

+ * [[vomica]]

+ * [[vomificus]]

+ * [[vomitiō]]

+ * [[vomitō]]

+ * [[uomitor]]

+ * [[vomitōrius]]

+ * [[vomitus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[vomicōsus]]

+ * [[vomicus]]

+ * [[vomifluus]]

+ * [[en|vomit]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}