expectorant

English

Etymology

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English expectorate

Proto-Indo-European *-onts

Latin -ns

Latin -āns

Old French -antbor.

Proto-Indo-European *-onts

Proto-Germanic *-andz

Proto-West Germanic *-andī

Old English -ende

Middle English -ant

English -ant

English expectorant

From expectorate + -ant.

Pronunciation

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Noun

expectorant (plural expectorants)

1. (medicine) An agent or drug used to cause or induce the expulsion of phlegm from the lungs.
   • 1833, R. J. Bertin, translated by Charles W. Chauncy, Treatise on the Diseases of the Heart, and Great Vessels, Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Blnachard, page 165:

     The disease was regarded as pneumonia so far advanced that suppuration seemed to have supervened; bleeding, blisters, expectorants, and cathartics diminished the symptoms; the pulse continued frequent, hard, full, but always regular.

   • 1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 60:

     The bedside table is littered with both OTC and prescription expectorants and pertussives and analgesics and Vitamin-C megaspansules […]

Hyponyms

• mucolytic
• secretolytic
• mucokinetic
• mucoregulator

Related terms

• expectoration

Translations

agent or drug used to cause or induce the expulsion of phlegm from the lungs

• Azerbaijani: bəlğəmgətirici
• Czech: expektorancium n
• Dutch: slijmoplosser m
• Finnish: ekspektorantti (fi)
• French: expectorant (fr) m
• German: Schleimlöser m, Abhustemittel n, Expektorans n, Hustenlöser m, schleimlösendes Mittel n
• Greek: αποχρεμπτικό (el) n (apochremptikó)
• Hungarian: köptető (hu), köptetőszer
• Japanese: 去痰薬 (きょたんやく, kyotan'yaku)
• Korean: 거담제(祛痰劑) (geodamje)
• Polish: środek wykrztuśny m
• Portuguese: expectorante m
• Russian: отха́ркивающее сре́дство n (otxárkivajuščeje srédstvo), отха́ркивающее (ru) n (otxárkivajuščeje)
• Spanish: expectorante (es) m
• Swedish: expektorerande medel n

Adjective

expectorant (not comparable)

1. (medicine) Causing or assisting the expulsion of phlegm.

   an expectorant preparation

   • 1967, Barbara Sleigh, Jessamy, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, published 1993, →ISBN, page 84:

     ‘Matchett says there’s old Mr P. who made all the money with ’is cought mixture—’ ‘Not Parkinsons ex . . . something?’ asked Jessamy. ‘That’s it,’ nodded Sarah, ‘ “Hexpectorant Posset”.’

   Synonym: expectorative

Related terms

• expectorate

See also

• cough mixture

Catalan

Verb

expectorant

1. gerund of expectorar

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛk.spɛk.tɔ.ʁɑ̃/

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Participle

expectorant

1. present participle of expectorer

Adjective

expectorant (feminine expectorante, masculine plural expectorants, feminine plural expectorantes)

1. expectorant (causing or assisting the expulsion of phlegm)

Noun

expectorant m (plural expectorants)

1. expectorant (agent or drug used to cause or induce the expulsion of phlegm from the lungs)

Further reading

• “expectorant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French expectorant.

Adjective

expectorant m or n (feminine singular expectorantă, masculine plural expectoranți, feminine/neuter plural expectorante)

1. expectorant

Declension

Declension of expectorant

		singular			plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine	masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative- accusative	indefinite	expectorant		expectorantă	expectoranți	expectorante
	definite	expectorantul		expectoranta	expectoranții	expectorantele
genitive- dative	indefinite	expectorant		expectorante	expectoranți	expectorante
	definite	expectorantului		expectorantei	expectoranților	expectorantelor