A friend of mine and his family recently suffered food poisoning. Of course, I started to read about vomiting in Greek. And then I realized that I have been feeling nauseous for a few months now….(I will happily post any other vomit-related content)
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 upn your lungs!”
Pulmoneum edepol nimis velim vomitum vomas.
From P. Chantraine, an etymology. Did someone choke on a digamma?
