eructate

English

Etymology

Latin ēructātus, from the verb ēructō.

Verb

eructate (third-person singular simple present eructates, present participle eructating, simple past and past participle eructated)

  1. (formal, intransitive) To burp; to belch.
    • John Gibson Lockhart, Don Quixote, Chapter XLIII.
      "Be careful not to chew on both sides, nor to eructate before anyone." .' Eructate ? " quoth Sancho ; "I do not understand that."—" To eructate," answered Don Quixote, " is as much as to say, to belch ; but this being one of the most beastly words in our language, though very significant, the more polite borrow from the Latin, and instead of belching, say, eructating.

Translations


Latin

Verb

ēructāte

  1. second-person plural present active imperative of ēructō
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