rupture

English

Etymology

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”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɹʌptʃə/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

rupture (countable and uncountable, plural ruptures)

1. A burst, split, or break.
   • 1667, John Milton, “Book VII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →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.

Derived terms

• modulus of rupture
• rupture of membranes

Translations

burst or split

Bulgarian: скъсване (bg) n (skǎsvane), разкъсване (bg) n (razkǎsvane) Chinese: Mandarin: 破裂 (zh) (pòliè) Czech: prasklina (cs) f, prasknutí n Finnish: puhkeaminen (fi) (burst); halkeama (fi) (split), katkeaminen (fi) (break) French: rupture (fr) f German: Bruch (de) m Italian: rottura (it) Japanese: 破裂 (ja) (はれつ, haretsu) Korean: 터짐 (teojim) Latin: ruptura Macedonian: пр́скање n (pŕskanje), пу́кање n (púkanje) Ottoman Turkish: فتق (fıtık), چاك (çâk) Portuguese: rotura (pt) f, ruptura (pt) f (Brazil), rutura f (Portugal) Romanian: ruptură (ro) Russian: разры́в (ru) m (razrýv) Spanish: rotura (es)

social break

Bulgarian: разрив (bg) m (razriv) Chinese: Mandarin: 斷交 / 断交 (zh) (duànjiāo) Czech: rozkol m, roztržka (cs) f Finnish: välirikko (fi) German: Bruch (de) m Korean: 결렬 (ko) (gyeollyeol) Macedonian: пре́кин m (prékin), прекину́вање n (prekinúvanje), раскину́вање n (raskinúvanje) Russian: разры́в (ru) m (razrýv)

break in tissue

Arabic: تَمَزُّق (tamazzuq) Bulgarian: херния (bg) f (hernija) Czech: ruptura (cs) f, kýla (cs) f Finnish: revähdys (fi) Greek: κήλη (el) f (kíli) Indonesian: ruptur Irish: maidhm sheicne f (of the peritoneum) Latin: rāmex m Macedonian: хе́рнија f (hérnija) Plautdietsch: Bruch m Portuguese: ruptura (pt) f

failure mode

Catalan: ruptura (ca) Finnish: venymä (fi) German: Zerreißen n Italian: rottura (it) f Korean: 파단 (padan) Russian: разры́в (ru) m (razrýv)

Verb

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

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

Translations

to burst, break through, or split, as under pressure

Bulgarian: спуквам се (spukvam se) Czech: prasknout (cs) Finnish: puhjeta (fi), haljeta (fi), murtua (fi) Latvian: trūkt (lv) Macedonian: пу́ка (púka) Maori: ngawhewhe Portuguese: romper (pt) Russian: разрыва́ться (ru) impf (razryvátʹsja), разорва́ться (ru) pf (razorvátʹsja) Spanish: romper (es)

See also

• Rupture on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Further reading

• “rupture”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “rupture”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “rupture”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ruptūra. Doublet of roture.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁyp.tyʁ/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -yʁ

Noun

rupture f (plural ruptures)

1. breakup, rupture

Usage notes

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

Derived terms

• en rupture de ban
• en rupture de stock

Verb

rupture

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

Further reading

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

Latin

Participle

ruptūre

1. vocative masculine singular of ruptūrus