The corpus record — Latin

abruptio

abruptio · f

a breaking

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Where it lives

De Divinatione 1 · 0.36/10k
Letters to Atticus 1 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

abruptĭo — Lewis & Short

abruptĭo, ōnis, f.abrumpo,

I a breaking or tearing off, a rending asunder.

I Lit.: corrigiae, of a shoe-latchet, * Cic. Div. 2, 40, 84.—

II Trop.: augurii, interruption, Paul. ex Fest. pp. 270 and 271 Müll. —Of divorce, Att. ap. Cic. Att. 11, 3, 1.

In the wild

abruptio Cicero, De Divinatione 2.84.p1
abruptio Cicero, Letters to Atticus 11.3.1

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.