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- Latin · learned borrowing fromērūctātiōnem
- English todayeructation
Learned borrowing from Latin ērūctātiōnem, accusative of ērūctātiō (“a belching forth, burp”), from ērūctāre (“to belch, burp”). Compare Middle English eructuacioun (“belching, burp”), borrowed from the same root.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.