Greek Puking
ἐξεμέω, ἐξερεύγομαι: “vomit”
κατεξεράω: “vomit upon”
κοπριήμετος: “shit-puking”
προεξεμέω: “to puke beforehand”
ἐμεσία: “pukey”; i.e., a disposition to vomit
ἔμεσμα: “puke”, i.e. “that which is vomited
ἐμετηρίζω: “to administer an emetic”
ἐμετικός: “something that causes vomiting; an emetic”
ἀκρητόχολος: “bilious vomiting”
δυσεμής: “Difficult to vomit”
εὐέμετος: “Vomiting easily”
χολημετέω: “to vomit bile”
Herodotus, 1.133
“They can’t puke or piss in front of another”
καί σφι οὐκ ἐμέσαι ἔξεστι, οὐκὶ οὐρῆσαι ἀντίον ἄλλου
Revelations, 3.16
“I’m going to puke you from my mouth.”
μέλλω σε ἐμέσαι ἐκ τοῦ στόματός μου
Cicero, For King Deiotauros 7.22
“When you said you wanted to puke after dinner, they began to lead you into the bathroom”
‘cum’ inquit ‘vomere post cenam te velle dixisses, in balneum te ducere coeperunt
Plautus, Rudens 27
“By the god, I wish too much that you’d puke up your lungs!”
Pulmoneum edepol nimis velim vomitum vomas.
From P. Chantraine, an etymology. Did someone choke on a digamma?
The Roman Side of Things
Vomax, “given to vomiting”
Vomer, “ploughshare”; “membrum virile”
Vomica: “sore, boil”; “an evil”
Vomicosus: “full of sores or tumors”
Vomicus: “ulcerous”
Vomificus: “that which causes vomiting”
Vomifluus: “flowing with pus”
Vomitio: “a spewing”
Vomitor: “one who vomits”
Vomitorious: “that produces vomiting, emetic”
Vomitus: “a vomiting”
Vomo: “to puke”, cf. Greek ἐμέω, *ϝεμ-
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