What is the Latin word for emetic?

The usual Latin words for “emetic” are vomitōrius, Caelius. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.

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“emetic” in Latin

vomitōriusvomitory, emetic CaeliusLucius Coelius Antipater, a Roman jurist and historian; Marcus Caelius Rufus, a Roman politician and orator

Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864

emetic

vomitorium (Plin.): medicamentum vomificum (caelius, Aurel.). OBS. emetica (ἐμετική) is a conjectural reading of Schutz’s in caelius, ap. Cic., Ep., Fam. 8, 1, extr. emeticam facere for embeneticam facere; but in his Lex. Cic., he prefers empeneticam facere: it occurs of some mode of exciting hunger. To give anybody an emetic, aliquem vomere cogere. Tartar emetic, *tartarus emeticus. Emetic powder, *pulvis emeticus.

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What is the Latin word for emetic?: The usual Latin words for “emetic” are vomitōrius, Caelius. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.

Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.