Etymograph

English

eruption

Eruption comes from Latin eruptio ‘an eruption’, from erumpō ‘to break out (of), to burst out (of)’, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *Hrewp-.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*Hrewp-‘to break, tear (up)’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-European, derivedc. 4500–2500 BCE*Hrunépti‘to be breaking’reconstructed
  3. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CErumpō‘to break, burst, tear, rend, rupture’
  4. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEerumpō‘to break out (of), to burst out (of)’
  5. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEeruptio‘an eruption’
  6. Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600éruption
  7. Englishearliest quotation 1976eruption

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*Hrewp-‘to break, tear (up)’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-European, derivedc. 4500–2500 BCE*Hrunépti‘to be breaking’reconstructed
  3. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CErumpō‘to break, burst, tear, rend, rupture’
  4. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEerumpō‘to break out (of), to burst out (of)’
  5. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEeruptio‘an eruption’
  6. Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600éruption
  7. Englishearliest quotation 1976eruption

Earliest quotation: 1976, Rudy Kikel, The Doomsday Book by the Jewish Comedian: “Ultimately, Greenfield may remind us of no one so…”

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *Hrewp- ‘to break, tear (up)’

route, rob, robbery, rover, robe, reaver, 23 more

through Proto-Indo-European *Hrunépti ‘to be breaking’

corruption, 6 more

through Latin rumpō ‘to break, burst, tear, rend, rupture’

corrupt, rout, disrupt, rupture, 11 more

Today it means

noun A violent ejection, such as the spurting out of lava from a volcano.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *Hrewp- / eruption

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