eruct

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  • "Take care, Sancho, not to chew on both sides, and not to eruct in anybody's presence." —  Don Quixote
  • "To eruct, Sancho," said Don Quixote, "means to belch, and that is one of the filthiest words in the Spanish language, though a very expressive one; and therefore nice folk have had recourse to the Latin, and instead of belch say eruct, and instead of belches say eructations; and if some do not understand these terms it matters little, for custom will bring them into use in the course of time, so that they will be readily understood; this is the way a language is enriched; custom and the public are all-powerful there." —  Don Quixote
  • We ate fifty oysters, and drank two bottles of sparkling champagne, which made my two guests eruct and blush and laugh at the same time. —  The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova
 

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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Latin ērūctāre : ē-, ex-, ex- + rūctāre, to belch; see reug- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. = Italian eruttare = Spanish eructar, from Latin eructare, belch or vomit forth, cast forth, from e, out, + ructare, belch: see ructation.
 

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