ruptura

See also: ruptură

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ruptūra.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [rupˈtu.ɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [rupˈtu.ɾa]

• Audio (Barcelona):

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Noun

ruptura f (plural ruptures)

1. rupture, breaking, breakup

Related terms

• rompre

Czech

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ruptura.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈruptura]
• Rhymes: -ura

Noun

ruptura f

1. rupture

Declension

Declension of ruptura (hard feminine)

	singular	plural
nominative	ruptura	ruptury
genitive	ruptury	ruptur
dative	ruptuře	rupturám
accusative	rupturu	ruptury
vocative	rupturo	ruptury
locative	ruptuře	rupturách
instrumental	rupturou	rupturami

Related terms

Related terms

• abrupce
• abruptní
• disrupce
• disruptivní
• erupce
• interrupce
• interrupt
• korumpovat
• korupce
• korupčník

Further reading

• “ruptura”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “ruptura”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

Interlingua

Noun

ruptura (plural rupturas)

1. rupture

Latin

Etymology

From rumpō (“break, burst”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [rʊpˈtuː.ra]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [rupˈtuː.ra]

Noun

ruptūra f (genitive ruptūrae); first declension

1. breaking or breaking off of a limb; fracture, breach, rupture

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	ruptūra	ruptūrae
genitive	ruptūrae	ruptūrārum
dative	ruptūrae	ruptūrīs
accusative	ruptūram	ruptūrās
ablative	ruptūrā	ruptūrīs
vocative	ruptūra	ruptūrae

Synonyms

• (fracture): ruptiō

Related terms

• abrumpō
• corrumpō
• interrumpō
• irrumpō
• rumpō
• ruptiō
• ruptor
• ruptus

Descendants

• Asturian: rotura
• → English: rupture
• French: rupture, roupture, roture, routure
• Friulian: roture
• Galician: rotura
• Italian: rottura
• Old French: rupture
• Piedmontese: rotura
• Portuguese: rotura, → ruptura, rutura (Portugal)
• Romanian: ruptură
• Sicilian: ruttura
• Spanish: rotura, ruptura
• Venetan: rotura

Participle

ruptūra

1. inflection of ruptūrus:
   1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

Participle

ruptūrā

1. ablative feminine singular of ruptūrus

References

• “ruptura”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "ruptura", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “ruptura”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• rutura (Portugal)

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin ruptūra. Doublet of rotura, which was inherited.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ʁupˈtu.ɾɐ/ [hupˈtu.ɾɐ], /ʁu.piˈtu.ɾɐ/ [hu.piˈtu.ɾɐ]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ʁupˈtu.ɾɐ/ [hupˈtu.ɾɐ], /ʁu.piˈtu.ɾɐ/ [hu.piˈtu.ɾɐ]
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ʁupˈtu.ɾɐ/ [χupˈtu.ɾɐ], /ʁu.piˈtu.ɾɐ/ [χu.piˈtu.ɾɐ]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ʁupˈtu.ɾa/ [hupˈtu.ɾa]

• Hyphenation: rup‧tu‧ra

Noun

ruptura f (plural rupturas) (Brazilian Portuguese spelling)

1. synonym of rotura

Further reading

• “ruptura”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “ruptura”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Romanian

Noun

ruptura

1. definite nominative/accusative singular of ruptură

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ruptǔːra/
• Hyphenation: rup‧tu‧ra

Noun

ruptúra f (Cyrillic spelling рупту́ра)

1. rupture

Declension

Declension of ruptura

	singular	plural
nominative	ruptura	rupture
genitive	rupture	ruptura
dative	rupturi	rupturama
accusative	rupturu	rupture
vocative	rupturo	rupture
locative	rupturi	rupturama
instrumental	rupturom	rupturama

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ruptūra. Cf. the inherited doublet rotura.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rubˈtuɾa/ [ruβ̞ˈt̪u.ɾa]

• Audio (Colombia):

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• Rhymes: -uɾa
• Syllabification: rup‧tu‧ra

Noun

ruptura f (plural rupturas)

1. rupture
2. breaking off; breakup

Related terms

• romper
• roto

Further reading

• “ruptura”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025