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- Latin · borrowed fromeruptus
- English todayerupt
From Latin eruptus, past participle of ērumpō (“to break out (of), to burst out (from)”), from e (“out”) + rumpō (“to break”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
erupt
Today it means: To eject something violently (such as lava or water, as from a volcano or geyser). Full definition →
Latin eruptus