英和和英

名詞

sputum (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 sputums または 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^[1]:

     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.

Further reading

• sputum on Wikipedia.
• sputum in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• sputum in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911
• sputum at OneLook Dictionary Search

Latin

語源

From spuō.

発音

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈspuː.tum/, [ˈs̠puːt̪ʊ̃ˑ]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈspu.tum/, [ˈspuːt̪um]

名詞

spūtum n (genitive spūtī); second declension

1. spittle

語形変化

Second-declension noun (neuter).

関連する語

• sputō

派生した語

Participle

spūtum

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

参照

• “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