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perrumpo

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Latin

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Etymology

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    From per- + rumpō.

    Pronunciation

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    Verb

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    perrumpō (present infinitive perrumpere, perfect active perrūpī, supine perruptum); third conjugation

    1. to break or force through
    2. to overcome

    Conjugation

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    References

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    • “perrumpo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
    • “perrumpo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
    • “perrumpo”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
    • Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
      • to break the ranks: ordines turbare, perrumpere
      • to break through the lines (and relieve a town): munitiones perrumpere
      • to break through the enemy's centre: per medios hostes (mediam hostium aciem) perrumpere