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English
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin ēructātus, from the verb ēructō.
Verb
eructate (third-person singular simple present eructates, present participle eructating, simple past and past participle eructated)
- (formal, intransitive) To burp; to belch.
1850, Erastus Edgerton Marcy, John Charles Peters, Otto Füllgraff, The Elements of a New Materia Medica and Therapeutics, page 400:Pain in the right side of the throat, as from an ulcery sensation or as if a splinter were lodged in the throat, when swallowing, eructating, breathing, stretching and moving the neck.
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Translations
Latin
Verb
ērūctāte
- second-person plural present active imperative of ērūctō
Spanish
Verb
eructate
- second-person singular voseo imperative of eructar combined with te