rupture

Borrowed from Middle French rupture, or its source, Latin ruptūra (“a breaking, rupture (of a limb or vein)”) and Medieval Latin ruptūra (“a road, a field, a form of feudal tenure, a tax, etc.”), from the participle stem of rumpere (“to break, burst”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɹʌptʃə/

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rupture (countable and uncountable, plural ruptures)

1. A burst, split, or break.
   • 1667, John Milton, “Book VII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:

     Hatch from the egg, that soon, / Bursting with kindly rupture, forth disclosed / Their callow young.

2. A social breach or break, between individuals or groups.
   • 1825, Edward Everett, Claims of the United States on Naples and Holland:

     He knew that policy would disincline Napoleon from a rupture with his family.

   • 1761, The Modern Part of an Universal History:

     Thus a war was kindled with Lubec; Denmark took part with the king's enemies, and made use of a frivolous pretence, which demonstrated the inclination of his Danish majesty to come to a rupture.

3. (medicine) A break or tear in soft tissue, such as a muscle.
4. (engineering) A failure mode in which a tough ductile material pulls apart rather than cracking.

rupture (third-person singular simple present ruptures, present participle rupturing, simple past and past participle ruptured)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To burst, break through, or split, as under pressure.
2. (botany, intransitive) To dehisce irregularly.

• Rupture on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• “rupture”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “rupture”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “rupture”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Category:English terms derived from the PIE root *Hrewp-

Borrowed from Latin ruptūra. Doublet of roture.

• IPA^(key): /ʁyp.tyʁ/

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• Rhymes: -yʁ

rupture f (plural ruptures)

1. breakup, rupture

This word almost always unambiguously means "breakup" when used absolutely. For other senses, it needs a complement.

• en rupture de ban
• en rupture de stock

rupture

1. inflection of rupturer:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “rupture”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

ruptūre

1. vocative masculine singular of ruptūrus