sputum

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

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^[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.

• 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.

• IPA^(key): [ˈspuːtum]
• Hyphenation: spu‧tum

sputum n

1. sputum

   Synonyms: chrchel, hlen

• “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)

Learned borrowing from Latin sputum.

• IPA^(key): [ˈsputʊm]
• Hyphenation: spu‧tum

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.

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

From spuō.

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

spūtum n (genitive spūtī); second declension

1. spittle

Second-declension noun (neuter).

• sputō

spūtum

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

• “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
• Félix Gaffiot (1934) “sputum”, in Dictionnaire illustré latin-français [Illustrated Latin-French Dictionary] (in French), Hachette.