rupture

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French rupture, or its source, Latin ruptūra (“a breaking, rupture (of a limb or vein)”) and Medieval Latin ruptūra (“a road, a field, a form of feudal tenure, a tax, etc.”), from the participle stem of rumpere (“to break, burst”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɹʌptʃə/

Noun

rupture (countable and uncountable, plural ruptures)

1. A burst, split, or break.
   • (Can we date this quote?) John Milton

     Hatch from the egg, that soon, / Bursting with kindly rupture, forth disclosed / Their callow young.

2. A social breach or break, between individuals or groups.
   • (Can we date this quote?) E. Everett

     He knew that policy would disincline Napoleon from a rupture with his family.

3. (medicine) A break or tear in soft tissue, such as a muscle.
4. (engineering) A failure mode in which a tough ductile material pulls apart rather than cracking.

Translations

burst or split

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 破裂 (zh) (pòliè)

• Finnish: puhkeaminen (fi) (burst); halkeama (fi) (split), katkeaminen (fi) (break)
• French: rupture (fr) f
• German: Bruch (de) m
• Italian: rottura (it)
• Japanese: 破裂 (ja) (はれつ, haretsu)

• Korean: 터짐 (teojim)
• Latin: ruptura
• Portuguese: ruptura (pt) f
• Romanian: ruptură (ro)
• Russian: разры́в (ru) m (razrýv)
• Spanish: rotura (es)

social break

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 斷交 (zh), 断交 (zh) (duànjiāo)

• Finnish: välirikko (fi)

• German: Bruch (de) m
• Korean: 결렬 (ko) (gyeollyeol)
• Russian: разры́в (ru) m (razrýv)

break in tissue

• Finnish: revähdys (fi)
• Greek: κήλη (el) f (kíli)

• Portuguese: ruptura (pt) f

failure mode

• Catalan: ruptura (ca)
• Finnish: venymä (fi)
• German: Zerreißen n

• Italian: rottura (it) f
• Korean: 파단 (padan)
• Russian: разры́в (ru) m (razrýv)

Verb

rupture (third-person singular simple present ruptures, present participle rupturing, simple past and past participle ruptured)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To burst, break through, or split, as under pressure.
2. (botany, intransitive) To dehisce irregularly.

Translations

to burst, break through, or split, as under pressure

• Czech: prasknout (cs)
• Finnish: puhjeta (fi), haljeta (fi), murtua (fi)
• Latvian: trūkt (lv)

• Maori: ngawhewhe
• Portuguese: romper (pt)
• Russian: разрыва́ться (ru) impf (razryvátʹsja), разорва́ться (ru) pf (razorvátʹsja)

See also

• Rupture on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Further reading

• rupture in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• rupture in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
• rupture at OneLook Dictionary Search

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁyp.tyʁ/

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Noun

rupture f (plural ruptures)

1. breakup, rupture

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Latin

Participle

ruptūre

1. vocative masculine singular of ruptūrus