Meanings
present singular third person eructates · participle present eructating · participle past eructated · past eructated
- formalintransitiveTo belch, to burp.
Pain in the right side of the throat, as from an ulcery sensation or as if a splinter were lodged in the throat, when swallowing, eructating, breathing, stretching and moving the neck.
1850, Erastus Edgerton Marcy, John Charles Peters, Otto Füllgraff, The Elements of a New Materia Medica and Therapeutics, page 4001 more example
What hours have I paced those platforms, endlessly, hopelessly, where the draughts of Siberia and the solstice heats of Ecuador focus their unscrupling rigours on the eructated passenger.
1928, Robert Byron, “Frankfort”, in The Station: Athos: Treasures and Men, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A[braham] Knopf, →OCLC, page 189
Origin
- Latinēructātus
- Englisheructate
Learned borrowing from Latin ēructātus, from the verb ēructō.
More words from Latin
Full word history & related roots →Translations
French éructer
- éructerto belch, to burp — see also belch, burp
Italian eruttare
- eruttareto belch, to burp — see also belch, burp
Māori kūpā, pupā
- kūpāto belch, to burp — see also belch, burp
- pupāto belch, to burp — see also belch, burp
- taneto belch, to burp — see also belch, burp
- tokopuahato belch, to burp — see also belch, burp
Turkish geğirmek
- geğirmekto belch, to burp — see also belch, burp
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