ructus
Latin
Etymology
From *rūgō (“to belch”) + -tus, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rewg-.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈruːk.tus/, [ˈruːkt̪ʊs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈruk.tus/, [ˈrukt̪us]
Noun
rūctus m (genitive rūctūs); fourth declension
- belch, belching
Declension
Fourth-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | rūctus | rūctūs |
| Genitive | rūctūs | rūctuum |
| Dative | rūctuī | rūctibus |
| Accusative | rūctum | rūctūs |
| Ablative | rūctū | rūctibus |
| Vocative | rūctus | rūctūs |
Related terms
- ructābundus
- ructō
Descendants
- Catalan: rot, eructe
- French: rot
- Galician: arroto
- Italian: rutto
- Piedmontese: rut
- Portuguese: arroto
- Spanish: eructo
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