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crevice
English
Etymology
From Middle English crevice, from Old French crevace, from crever (“to break, burst”), from Latin crepare (“to break, burst, crack”). Doublet of crevasse.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?k??v?s/
Noun
crevice (plural crevices)
- A narrow crack or fissure, as in a rock or wall.
- ?, Alfred Tennyson, Mariana
- The mouse, / Behind the mouldering wainscot, shrieked, / Or from the crevice peer'd about.
- 16 March, 1926, Virginia Woolf, letter to V. Sackville-West
- I can't tell you how urbane and sprightly the old poll parrot was; and […] not a pocket, not a crevice, of pomp, humbug, respectability in him: he was fresh as a daisy.
- ?, Alfred Tennyson, Mariana
Translations
Verb
crevice (third-person singular simple present crevices, present participle crevicing, simple past and past participle creviced)
- To crack; to flaw.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Sir H. Wotton to this entry?)
References
- crevice in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- crevice in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- crevice at OneLook Dictionary Search
Old French
Alternative forms
- crevez, crevis, crevesce, creveche, creveis, escrevise, escreveice, escreviche
Etymology
From either Frankish *krebitja (“crayfish”), diminutive of *krebit (“crab”), from Proto-Germanic *krabitaz (“crab, cancer”), from Proto-Indo-European *greb?-, *gereb?- (“to scratch, crawl”), or from Old High German krebiz (“edible crustacean, crab”) (German Krebs (“crab”)), from the same source. Cognate with Middle Low German kr?vet (“crab”), Dutch kreeft (“crayfish, lobster”), Old English crabba (“crab”).
Noun
crevice f (oblique plural crevices, nominative singular crevice, nominative plural crevices)
- crayfish, crawfish
Descendants
- Middle French: escrevice, escrevisse, escrevisce, crevis, creviche, crevice
- French: écrevisse
- ? Middle Dutch: crevetse
- ? Middle English: crevis, crevyse, creuez, crevez, crevise, creveys, crevesse, krevys
- English: crevis; crayfish, crawfish (influenced by fish)
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rupture
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French rupture, or its source, Latin rupt?ra (“a breaking, rupture (of a limb or vein)”) and Medieval Latin rupt?ra (“a road, a field, a form of feudal tenure, a tax, etc.”), from the participle stem of rumpere (“to break, burst”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /???pt??/
Noun
rupture (countable and uncountable, plural ruptures)
- A burst, split, or break.
- A social breach or break, between individuals or groups.
- 1825, Edward Everett, Claims of the United States on Naples and Holland
- He knew that policy would disincline Napoleon from a rupture with his family.
- 1761, The Modern Part of an Universal History
- Thus a war was kindled with Lubec; Denmark took part with the king's enemies, and made use of a frivolous pretence, which demonstrated the inclination of his Danish majesty to come to a rupture.
- 1825, Edward Everett, Claims of the United States on Naples and Holland
- (medicine) A break or tear in soft tissue, such as a muscle.
- (engineering) A failure mode in which a tough ductile material pulls apart rather than cracking.
Translations
Verb
rupture (third-person singular simple present ruptures, present participle rupturing, simple past and past participle ruptured)
- (transitive, intransitive) To burst, break through, or split, as under pressure.
- (botany, intransitive) To dehisce irregularly.
Translations
See also
- Rupture on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Further reading
- rupture in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- rupture in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- rupture at OneLook Dictionary Search
Category:English terms derived from the PIE root *Hrewp-
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?yp.ty?/
- Rhymes: -y?
Noun
rupture f (plural ruptures)
- breakup, rupture
Derived terms
- en rupture de ban
Verb
rupture
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Latin
Participle
rupt?re
- vocative masculine singular of rupt?rus
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