romper

/romˈpeɾ/ · A1 · verb

to break

🔨 romper → rupture: same Latin root rumpere, to break

From Latin rumpere, source of English rupture, interrupt and erupt. A relationship ruptures (romper con alguien), and romper a llorar is to burst into tears, the same break-out sense as erupt.

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