sputumとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

IPA: /ˈspjutəm/

名詞

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:

     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.Wikipedia
• “sputum”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “sputum”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “sputum”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈspuː.tũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈspuː.tum]

名詞

spūtum n (genitive spūtī); second declension

1. spittle

   Synonym: screa

語形変化

Second-declension noun (neuter).

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.