ructus

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Latin

Etymology

From *rūgō (to belch) +‎ -tus, from Proto-Italic *rougō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rewg-.

Pronunciation

Noun

rū̆ctus m (genitive rū̆ctūs); fourth declension

  1. belch, belching

Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative rū̆ctus rū̆ctūs
genitive rū̆ctūs rū̆ctuum
dative rū̆ctuī rū̆ctibus
accusative rū̆ctum rū̆ctūs
ablative rū̆ctū rū̆ctibus
vocative rū̆ctus rū̆ctūs

Descendants

  • Catalan: rot, eructe (learned)
  • French: rot
  • Galician: arroto
  • Italian: rutto
  • Neapolitan: grutto
  • Piedmontese: rut
  • Portuguese: arroto
  • Spanish: eructo (learned)

References

  • ructus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • ructus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • "ructus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • ructus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.