ructus

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈruːk.tus/, [ˈruːkt̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈruk.tus/, [ˈrukt̪us]

Noun

rūctus m (genitive rūctūs); fourth declension

1. 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
• Neapolitan: grutto
• 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.