Etymograph

English

irruption

Irruption comes from Middle French irruption, from Latin irrumpō ‘to intrude’, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *Hrewp- ‘to break, tear (up)’.

  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’
  4. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEirrumpō‘to intrude’
  5. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEirruptio
  6. Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600irruption
  7. Englishearliest quotation 1748same form

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’
  4. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEirrumpō‘to intrude’
  5. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEirruptio
  6. Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600irruption
  7. Englishearliest quotation 1748same form

Earliest quotation: 1748, Tobias Smollett, The Adventures of Roderick Random. […] In Two Volumes.: “[I]t was not till arts and ſciences began to…”

Linked words

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

route, rob, robbery, rover, robe, reaver, 21 more

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

corruption, 5 more

through Latin rumpō ‘to break’

corrupt, rout, disrupt, rupture, eruption, erupt, 9 more

Today it means

noun The action of irrupting or breaking into; a violent entry or invasion; an inbreaking; an intrusion.

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

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

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