rupture
English
/ˈɹʌptʃə/
noun
Definitions
- A burst, split, or break.
- A social breach or break, between individuals or groups.
- (medicine) A break or tear in soft tissue, such as a muscle.
- (engineering) A failure mode in which a tough ductile material pulls apart rather than cracking.
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French rupture borrowed from Latin ruptūra (rupture, a breaking, breaking breaking off of a limb, breach, fracture), ruptūra (rupture, a breaking, breaking breaking off of a limb, breach, fracture).
Origin
Latin
ruptūra
Gloss
rupture, a breaking, breaking breaking off of a limb, breach, fracture
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- rupturable English
- ruptureless English
- rupturewort English
- wort English
- ruptūra Latin
- rottura Italian
- roture French
- rupture French
- rotura Spanish, Castilian
- ruptura Spanish, Castilian
- ruptura Portuguese
- ruptură Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- ruptar Ido
- rupture Middle French
- routura Old Portuguese
- roture Friulian
- rotura Venetian