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/

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Noun

rupture (countable and uncountable, plural ruptures)

1. A burst, split, or break.
   • 1667, John Milton, “Book 7”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], OCLC 228722708; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554:

     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.
   • 1825, Edward Everett, Claims of the United States on Naples and Holland

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

   • 1761, The Modern Part of an Universal History

     Thus a war was kindled with Lubec; Denmark took part with the king's enemies, and made use of a frivolous pretence, which demonstrated the inclination of his Danish majesty to come to a rupture.

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)

• Czech: prasklina (cs) f, prasknutí n
• 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)

• Czech: rozkol m, roztržka (cs) f
• Finnish: välirikko (fi)

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

break in tissue

• Czech: ruptura (cs) f, kýla (cs) f
• Finnish: revähdys (fi)
• Greek: κήλη (el) f (kíli)

• Indonesian: ruptur
• Latin: rāmex m
• Plautdietsch: Bruch m
• 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

Category:English terms derived from the PIE root *Hrewp-

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁyp.tyʁ/

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• Rhymes: -yʁ

Noun

rupture f (plural ruptures)

1. breakup, rupture

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Latin

Participle

ruptūre

1. vocative masculine singular of ruptūrus