abrumpo
Latin
Etymology
From ab- (“from, away from”) + rumpō (“break, burst, tear”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /aˈbrum.poː/, [aˈbrʊm.poː]
Verb
abrumpō (present infinitive abrumpere, perfect active abrūpī, supine abruptum); third conjugation
- I break off something (violently); rend, tear, sever.
- (of an event, action or policy) I cut short, break off, terminate, end.
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References
- abrumpo in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- abrumpo in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- abrumpo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to break off in the middle of the conversation: medium sermonem abrumpere (Verg. Aen. 4. 388)
- to break off in the middle of the conversation: medium sermonem abrumpere (Verg. Aen. 4. 388)
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