vomita

Forms

vomita (third-person singular present vomită, past participle vomitat) 1st conjugation^[1] MDA2 records the regional present vomitez and the variants fometa, fomenta, fomida, fumeta and vometa.^[2]

Etymology

It is a learned loan, borrowed from Latin vomitō (“to vomit”),^[2][3][1][4] also named with borrowed from Italian vomitare by DEX 2009 and the neologism dictionaries.^[5][6][7]

The Latin verb is the iterative of vomō (“to vomit”).^[8] French has instead vomir, handed down by popular speech.^[8] The Italian verb is recorded from about 1350.^[9]

Earliest recorded meaning

MDA2's first record is Alexi's Romanian–German dictionary of 1906, and the DLR also begins with Alexi.^[2][3]

Semantic evolution

The word is the medical and neutral term beside the native vărsa and the popular borî; voma is a synonym.^[5][3] Camil Petrescu uses it of a man with a migraine who had vomited.^[3] In criminals' slang it has come to mean “to inform on someone” and “to confess”.^[10]

Timeline

• 1906 – vomita in Alexi's dictionary, the first record.^[2][3]
• 1929 – vomità “to vomit” in Șăineanu's dictionary, marked as a medical term.^[11]
• 1931 – recorded in CADE.^[3]

Meanings

Verb

1. (transitive, also absolute) To vomit, to bring up the contents of the stomach through the mouth; to vărsa.^[5][2]
2. (slang) To inform on someone; to confess.^[10]

Related words

• voma
• vomă
• vărsa
• Latin vomito

References

1. ^ a b Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b c d e Academia Română, Institutul de Lingvistică „Iorgu Iordan – Al. Rosetti” (2010), Micul dicționar academic, 2nd ed., 4 vols., București: Univers Enciclopedic Gold, p. 2, 1510
3. ^ a b c d e f Academia Română (1965–2010), Dicționarul limbii române (DLR), serie nouă, tom I–XIX, București: Editura Academiei Române, p. s.v. vomita
4. ^ Academia Română, Institutul de Lingvistică „Iorgu Iordan – Al. Rosetti” (2002), Noul dicționar explicativ al limbii române, București: Litera Internațional, p. s.v. vomita
5. ^ a b c DEX (2009), Dicționarul explicativ al limbii române [Explanatory dictionary of the Romanian language], Bucharest: Editura Univers Enciclopedic, p. 1206
6. ^ Marcu, Florin; Maneca, Constant (1986), Dicționar de neologisme, 3rd ed., București: Editura Academiei Republicii Socialiste România, p. s.v. vomita
7. ^ Marcu, Florin (2000), Marele dicționar de neologisme, București: Saeculum Vizual, p. s.v. vomita
8. ^ a b Nocentini, Alberto; Parenti, Alessandro (2010), l'Etimologico: vocabolario della lingua italiana, Firenze: Le Monnier
9. ^ Cortelazzo, Manlio; Zolli, Paolo (1999), Dizionario etimologico della lingua italiana, 2nd ed. by Manlio Cortelazzo and Michele A. Cortelazzo, Bologna: Zanichelli
10. ^ a b Volceanov, George (2007), Dicționar de argou al limbii române, București: Niculescu, p. s.v. vomita
11. ^ Șăineanu, Lazăr (1929), Dicționar universal al limbei române, 6th ed., Craiova: Scrisul Românesc, p. 1, 702