ructo

Latin

Etymology

From *rūgō (to belch, whence rū̆ctus (belch) and ērūgō) +‎ -tō (frequentative suffix), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rewg- (belch, roar). Cognate with Old English rocettan (to belch) and Ancient Greek ἐρεύγομαι (ereúgomai, to belch, vomit, emit).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈruːk.toː], [ˈrʊk.toː]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈruk.t̪o]
  • The u in the first syllable is short per De Vaan (2008)[1] and Wartburg (1928–2002);[2] long per Bennett (1907)[3] (who however says that there is Romance evidence for both long ū and short ŭ).

Verb

rū̆ctō (present infinitive rū̆ctāre, perfect active rū̆ctāvī, supine rū̆ctātum); first conjugation

  1. to belch, eructate
  2. (figurative) to bring up noisily

Conjugation

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Italo-Romance:
    • Italian: ruttare
    • Neapolitan: gruttà
  • North Italian:
    • Emilian: rugiar
    • Ligurian: reuitâ, ruis-cé, ris-cià rutexâr
    • Lombard: ruitar rotexar
      Alpine: ruciar
    • Piedmontese: rutié, rocià, rugé
  • Ibero-Romance:
  • Latin: ērūctō, ērū̆ctuō (Late Latin)
  • Vulgar Latin: [Term?], *rūctīre
    • Padanian:
    • Southern Gallo-Romance:
  • Vulgar Latin: *ruptō
    • Padanian:
      • Lombard: reucar
      • Piedmontese: rauté
    • Northern Gallo-Romance:
    • Southern Gallo-Romance:

References

  1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “-rūgō, -ere”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 529
  2. ^ Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “rŭctare”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 10: R, page 539
  3. ^ Bennett, Charles E. (1907) The Latin Language: a historical outline of its sounds, inflections, and syntax, Boston: Allyn and Bacon, page 64

Further reading

  • ructo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • ructo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • ructo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.