eructate

Learned borrowing from Latin ēructātus, from the verb ēructō.

eructate (third-person singular simple present eructates, present participle eructating, simple past and past participle eructated)

1. (formal, intransitive) To belch, to burp.
   • 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.

   • 1928, Robert Byron, “Frankfort”, in The Station: Athos: Treasures and Men, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A[braham] Knopf, →OCLC, page 189:

     What hours have I paced those platforms, endlessly, hopelessly, where the draughts of Siberia and the solstice heats of Ecuador focus their unscrupling rigours on the eructated passenger.

     An adjective use.

• eructation

ērūctāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of ērūctō

eructate

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of eructar combined with te