SPIT Copy link • SPIT 1. s. veru, neuter, verum (Plaut.). To turn a spit, veru versare. 2. v. To fasten on a spit, *(carnes) veru transfigere. To eject from the mouth, spuere: exspuere. To spit blood, sanguinem vomere, ejicere, extussire; sanguinem per tussim exscreare or ejicere; tussis sanguinem extundit (Cels.); sanguinem per os reddere; sanguinem (ore) rejicere (Plin.): to stop a spitting of blood, exscreationes cruentas inhibere: to spit at or on, aliquid sputo aspergere or respergere; inspuere in aliquid: conspuere; consputare (general term, in good or bad sense. ☞ Aspuere, Plin., 28, 4, 7, and insputare, Plaut., Capt., 3, 4, 21 and 23, are unusual): to spit in anybody’s face, inspuere alicui in frontem or in alicujus faciem; os alicujus sputo respergere; also, consputare aliquem: to spit forth, out, or up, exscreare (in clearing the throat, or coughing); spuere, exspuere (to spit out); salivare (to emit as spittle, of the murex, Plin., 9, 36, 60); vomere, evomere; ejicere, rejicere (to vomit; evomere also, of volcanoes); per os reddere (to emit from the mouth): to spit forth flames, ex montis vertice ignes erumpunt; mons ignes evomit (†) or flammis emicat: (figuratively) to spit out venom and gall, acerbitatis virus evomere; against anybody, apud aliquem: to spit out death and destruction, caedem eructare sermonibus.