rumpo

From rumpy-pumpy +‎ -o.

rumpo (uncountable)

1. (colloquial, humorous) Sexual intercourse.
   • 1991, Punch, volume 300, numbers 7862-7873, page 59:

     A film in French with subtitles in which nothing happens for two hours but you'll sit through it because these French films always have a bit of rumpo in somewhere.

   • 2014, Carol K. Carr, India Black and the Shadows of Anarchy:

     He'd been more than happy to impersonate my “valued customer,” especially as he'd been rewarded with a bit of rumpo (on the house) for his pains.

• Tony Thorne (2014) “rumpo”, in Dictionary of Contemporary Slang, 4th edition, London,  […]: Bloomsbury

Inherited from Proto-Indo-European *Hrunépti ~ *Hrumpénti, nasal-infixed present from the root *Hrewp- (“break”). Cognate with Sanskrit लुम्पति (lumpáti).^[1]

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈrʊm.poː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈrum.po]

rumpō (present infinitive rumpere, perfect active rūpī, supine ruptum); third conjugation

1. to break, burst, tear, rend, rupture; break asunder, force open

   Synonyms: dissolvo, solvo, absolvo, persolvo, distraho, findo, minuo

   Antonyms: coniungo, contraho, consocio, iungo, colligo, illigo, ligo, concilio

2. (of the body) to break, split, rupture, burst
3. (figuratively) to break; break off, through or away; cut short; interrupt; violate; infringe; cancel; stop; annul; destroy; rend

   Synonyms: interrumpō, interveniō, dirimō, āvocō, frangō, īnfringō, violō, irrumpō

   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.291–292:

     [...] sēsē intereā, quandō optuma Dīdō
     nesciat et tantōs rumpī nōn spēret amōrēs [...].

     Meanwhile, [Aeneas] himself – since his precious Dido is unaware, and nor [would] she expect such great passions to be broken off – [...].

4. (passive voice and reflexive) to result, arise, spring, erupt
5. to issue, emit, bring out

¹At least one use of the Old Latin "sigmatic future" and "sigmatic aorist" tenses is attested, which are used by Old Latin writers; most notably Plautus and Terence. The sigmatic future is generally ascribed a future or future perfect meaning, while the sigmatic aorist expresses a possible desire ("might want to").

• rūpēs
• rupex

• “rumpo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• rumpo in Enrico Olivetti, editor (2003-2025), Dizionario Latino, Olivetti Media Communication
• “rumpo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• rumpo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to annul, revoke a will: testamentum irritum facere, rumpere
    
  • to burst one's chains: vincula rumpere
    
  • to violate a treaty, terms of alliance: foedus frangere, rumpere, violare
    

rumpo

1. alternative spelling of rumpa (“tail; buttocks”)

• rumpa, page 269 in Ordbok öfver svenska medeltids-språket (1884-1973)