rompu
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French rompu, past participle of rompre to break, Latin rumpō. See rupture.
Adjective
rompu (not comparable)
- (heraldry) Broken, as an ordinary; cut off, or broken at the top, as a chevron, a bend, etc.
Esperanto
Verb
rompu
- imperative of rompi
French
Pronunciation
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Participle
rompu (feminine rompue, masculine plural rompus, feminine plural rompues)
- past participle of rompre
Adjective
rompu (feminine rompue, masculine plural rompus, feminine plural rompues)
- broken, exhausted, worn-out
- (with the preposition à) practiced, skilled, experienced
- Je suis rompu à l'exercice, maintenant.
Further reading
- “rompu”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
- promu
Irish
Etymology
From Middle Irish rempu, rempo, rempa, rompu, rompoibh, replacing earlier remaib, from Old Irish roaib.
Pronoun
rompu (emphatic rompusan)
- third-person plural of roimh: before them
Scottish Gaelic
Etymology
From ro + a.
Pronoun
rompu
- before them
Derived terms
- rompusan
See also
- prepositional pronoun
- roimhe
- roimhpe