# rumpo
## English
### Etymology

From rumpy-pumpy +‎ -o.

### Noun

rumpo (uncountable)
* (colloquial, humorous) Sexual intercourse.
** 1991, Punch, volume 300, numbers 7862-7873, page 59:A film in French with subtitles in which nothing happens for two hours but you'll sit through it because these French films always have a bit of rumpo in somewhere.
** 2014, Carol K. Carr, India Black and the Shadows of Anarchy:He'd been more than happy to impersonate my “valued customer,” especially as he'd been rewarded with a bit of rumpo (on the house) for his pains.

#### References

* Tony Thorne (2014) “rumpo”, in Dictionary of Contemporary Slang, 4th edition, London, […]: Bloomsbury

## Latin
### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Indo-European *Hrunépti ~ *Hrumpénti, nasal-infixed present from the root *Hrewp- (“break”). Cognate with Sanskrit लुम्पति (lumpáti).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈrum.poː/, [ˈrʊmpoː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈrum.po/, [ˈrumpo]

### Verb

rumpō (present infinitive rumpere, perfect active rūpī, supine ruptum); third conjugation
* to break, burst, tear, rend, rupture; break asunder, force open
    Synonyms: dissolvo, solvo, absolvo, persolvo, distraho, findo, minuo
    Antonyms: coniungo, contraho, consocio, iungo, colligo, illigo, ligo, concilio
* (of the body) to break, split, rupture, burst
* (figuratively) to break; break off, through or away; cut short; interrupt; violate; infringe; cancel; stop; annul; destroy; rend
    Synonyms: interrumpō, interveniō, dirimō, āvocō, frangō, īnfringō, violō, irrumpō
** 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.291–292:[...] sēsē intereā, quandō optuma Dīdō nesciat et tantōs rumpī nōn spēret amōrēs [...].Meanwhile, [Aeneas] himself – since his precious Dido is unaware, and nor [would] she expect such great passions to be broken off – [...].
* (passive voice and reflexive) to result, arise, spring, erupt
* to issue, emit, bring out

#### Conjugation

$^1$At least one use of the Old Latin "sigmatic future" and "sigmatic aorist" tenses is attested, which are used by Old Latin writers; most notably Plautus and Terence. The sigmatic future is generally ascribed a future or future perfect meaning, while the sigmatic aorist expresses a possible desire ("might want to").

#### Derived terms

* abrumpō
* arrumpō
* corrumpō
* dīrumpō
* dīsrumpō
* ērumpō
* interrumpō
* intrōrumpō
* irrumpō
* perrumpō
* praecorrumpō
* praerumpō
* prōrumpō
* ruptiō
* ruptor
* ruptūra
* ruptus
* surrumpō

#### Related terms

* rūpēs
* rupex

#### Descendants

* Aromanian: arup, arupiri
* Catalan: rompre
* English: rout (via Old French), ruption
* Esperanto: rompi
* Franco-Provençal: rontre (maybe from hypothetical Vulgar Latin *rumptere)
* French: rompre
* Friulian: rompi
* Galician: romper
* Italian: rompere
* Ladin: romper, rompe
* Occitan: ròmper, rompre
* Portuguese: romper
* Romanian: rupe, rupere
* Romansch: rumper, romper
* Sicilian: rumpiri, rùmpiri
* Spanish: romper
* Venetan: rónpar

### References

* ↑ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “rumpō, -ere”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 529-30

### Further reading

* “rumpo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* rumpo in Enrico Olivetti, editor (2003-2025), Dizionario Latino, Olivetti Media Communication
* “rumpo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* rumpo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co. to annul, revoke a will: testamentum irritum facere, rumpere to burst one's chains: vincula rumpere to violate a treaty, terms of alliance: foedus frangere, rumpere, violare

## Old Swedish
### Noun

rumpo
* Alternative spelling of rumpa (“tail; buttocks”).

### References

* rumpa, page 269 in Ordbok öfver svenska medeltids-språket (1884-1973)