emeticus

== Latin == === Etymology === Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἐμετῐκός (emetĭkós, “provoking sickness”), from ἔμετος (émetos, “vomiting”) +‎ -ῐκός (-ĭkós, “-ic”, adjectival suffix). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ɛˈmɛ.tɪ.kʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [eˈmɛː.ti.kus] === Adjective === emeticus (feminine emetica, neuter emeticum); first/second-declension adjective emetic, turning the stomach (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought:) ==== Inflection ==== First/second-declension adjective. ==== Derived terms ==== emetica (noun) ==== Descendants ==== → English: emetic → Italian: emetico → Sicilian: mèticu === References === “emeticus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press