erumpo

Latin

Etymology

ex- (out of) +‎ rumpō (break, burst)

Pronunciation

Verb

ērumpō (present infinitive ērumpere, perfect active ērūpī, supine ēruptum); third conjugation

  1. to break out (of), to burst out (of)
  2. to sally forth, rush out
    Manus gladiātōrum oppidō ērūperat.
    The company of gladiators had made a sally from the town.
  3. (figuratively) to break out, burst forth
    • 63 BCE, Cicero, Catiline Orations Oratio in Catilinam Prima in Senatu Habita.6:
      Etenim quid est, Catilīna, quod iam amplius expectēs — sī neque nox tenebrīs obscūrāre coetūs nefāriōs nec prīvātā domus parietibus continēre vōcēs coniūrātiōnis tuae potest — sī illūstrantur, sī ērumpunt omnia?
      For indeed, Catiline, what more can you now expect — if neither can the night with its shadows conceal your wicked meetings, nor can a private house with its walls contain the voices of your conspiracy — if all things are brought to light, if they burst forth?

Conjugation

Descendants

  • English: erupt
  • French: érompre
  • Italian: erompere
  • Romanian: erupe

References

  • erumpo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • erumpo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • erumpo”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • his vices betray themselves: vitia erumpunt (in aliquem) (De Amic. 21. 76)
    • a rebellion breaks out: seditio erumpit
  • erumpo in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
  • Morwood, James. A Latin Grammar. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.