eructo

Catalan

Verb

eructo

1. first-person singular present indicative of eructar

Galician

Verb

eructo

1. first-person singular present indicative of eructar

Latin

Etymology

From rūctō, or from erugo as its frequentative, both from the same root.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /eːˈruːk.toː/, [eːˈruːkt̪oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /eˈruk.to/, [eˈrukt̪o]

Verb

ērūctō (present infinitive ērūctāre, perfect active ērūctāvī, supine ērūctātum); first conjugation

1. to belch or vomit
2. to emit (violently), utter, rave
   • Cicero, 'In Catilinam', 2.10:

     ...qui mihi accubantes in conviviis conplexi mulieres inpudicas vino languidi, conferti cibo, sertis redimiti, unguentis obliti, debilitati stupris eructant sermonibus suis caedem bonorum atque urbis incendia.

     ...who lounging at parties with strange women, lazy with wine, stuffed with food, begarlanded, oblivious with perfume, enfeebled by debauchery, belch forth in speeches of the blood of good people and of the city in flames.

Conjugation

Descendants

• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: eruttare
  • Sicilian: arrutari
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Galician: arrotar, arruitar, arrutar, arrutiar, rotar
  • Portuguese: arrotar
• Borrowings:
  • → French: éructer
  • → Galician: eructar
  • → English: eruct, eructate
  • → Portuguese: eructar
  • → Spanish: eructar
  • → Romanian: eructa

References

• “eructo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “eructo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• eructo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • Vesuvius is discharging flame: Vesuvius evomit (more strongly eructat) ignes
    

Portuguese

Verb

eructo

1. first-person singular present indicative of eructar

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /eˈɾuɡto/ [eˈɾuɣ̞.t̪o]
• Rhymes: -uɡto
• Syllabification: e‧ruc‧to

Etymology 1

Deverbal from eructar.

Noun

eructo m (plural eructos)

1. belch, burp

   Synonym: regüeldo

Etymology 2

Verb

eructo

1. first-person singular present indicative of eructar

Further reading

• “eructo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014