Etymograph

English

rupture

Rupture may come from Middle French rupture.

  1. Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600ruptureuncertain
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1667rupture

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

Earlier history uncertain.

Lineage

  1. Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600ruptureuncertain
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1667rupture

Earliest quotation: 1667, John Milton, Book VII: “Hatch from the egg, that soon, / Bursting with…”

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *Hrewp- ‘break’

route, rob, robbery, rover, robe, reaver, 22 more

through Latin rumpō ‘break, burst’

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

Today it means

noun A burst, split, or break.

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

Etymograph / Middle French rupture / rupture

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