ructus

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈruːk.tʊs], [ˈrʊk.tʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈruk.tus]

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

Related terms

• rū̆ctābundus
• rū̆ctō

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.