expectorate

See also: expektorate

English

WOTD – 22 September 2006

Etymology

From Latin expectorātus, past participle of expectorō (“(only figurative) banish from the mind; (post-classical) expel from the breast)”), from ex (“out of”) + pectus (“the breast”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪkˈspɛktəɹeɪt/

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Verb

expectorate (third-person singular simple present expectorates, present participle expectorating, simple past and past participle expectorated)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To cough up fluid from the lungs.

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2. (transitive, intransitive) To spit.

Related terms

• expectorant
• expectoration

Translations

to cough up fluid from the lungs

• Armenian: խորխել (hy) (xorxel)
• Bulgarian: изкашлям (bg) (izkašljam), изхрачвам (bg) (izhračvam)
• Catalan: expectorar (ca)
• Czech: vykašlat pf
• Finnish: yskiä (fi)
• French: expectorer (fr)
• Galician: expectorar (gl), esgarrar (gl)
• Hungarian: felköhög (hu), felkrákog, kiköhög (hu)
• Icelandic: hósta (is), hósta upp
• Italian: espettorare (it)
• Macedonian: иска́шлува (iskášluva)
• Portuguese: expectorar (pt)
• Russian: ха́ркать (ru) impf (xárkatʹ), ха́ркнуть (ru) pf (xárknutʹ), отха́ркивать (ru) impf (otxárkivatʹ), отка́шливать (ru) impf (otkášlivatʹ)
• Spanish: expectorar (es)
• Vietnamese: khạc đờm, khạc (vi), nhổ (vi)

spit — see spit

See also

• sputum

Further reading

• “expectorate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “expectorate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “expectorate”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Spanish

Verb

expectorate

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of expectorar combined with te