Abrumpo, abrumpis, abrúpi, pen. prod. abruptum, abrúmpere. To breake or burst of: to cut of: to plucke vp: to leaue of.Vincula iumentorum abrurnpere.Liu.Abrumpere comua cætera acie. Liuius. To separate the winges from the residue of the battaile or armie.Ex re aliqua abrumpere. Plin. To breake of from. Transfertur ad res incorporeas: vt abrumpere rem inchoatam. Plin. iun.Cic.To breake vp, or leaue of an enterprise begunne.Abrumpe, si qua te retinent. Plin iun. If there be thinges that let or stay youz leane them of cleaue whatsoeuer they be.Se ab aliquo abrumpere Cic.Sodainely to leaue or for sake ones companie: vpon a sodayne to go from one.Actus ingentes abrumpere. Lucan. To leaue of great artes and enterprises.Abrumpi dissimulationem etiam Silius vrgebat. Tac. Silius vrged him to leaue dissimulation: no more to vse dissimulation.Fas omne abrumpit.Virg.Fata abrumpes tua? Sen. Wille thou shorten thy owne life?Fidem.Tacit.To breake promise.Moras. Stat: To put away delay: to deferre no longer.Noctem abrumpére oculi.Stat.I waked sodenly.Ordines laxar abrumpuntur. Tacit.Were seucred.Patientiam abrumpere.Tacit.To breake pacience: to mare angrie: not to abide longer in pacience.Somnos.Virg.To awake.Srmonem. Tacit.To breake or leaue of talke.Spem & metum.Tacit.To put away, or leaue of all hope and feare.Vectigalia. Tac. To cease, or leaue of any more to pay tribute.Venas.Tacit.To let bloud as a Surgeon doth.Æther abrumpitur ignibus.Ouid.It lighteneth.
Abruptum, Nomen substantiuum. n.g. That hath such a fall or stipenesse downe, that a man can not go but fall downe.Ire in abruptum.Stat.To haue a great fall or descente downe.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
ab-rumpo, ūpi, uptum, 3, v. a., to break off something violently, to rend, tear, sever (poet.; seldom used before the Aug. per., only once in Cic., but afterw. by Verg., Ov., and the histt. often). I.Lit.: vincla abrupit equus (transl. of the Homeric desmo\n a)porrh/cas, Il. 6, 507), Enn. ap. Macr. S. 6, 3 (Ann. v. 509 Vahl.); so, nec Lethaea valet Theseus abrumpere caro vincula Pirithoo, Hor. C. 4, 7, 27; cf. Verg. A. 9, 118: abrupti nubibus ignes,
torn from
, Lucr. 2, 214; cf. with the fig. reversed, in Verg.: ingeminant abruptis nubibus ignes, A. 3, 199: abrupto sidere, i. e.
hidden by clouds
, id. ib. 12, 451: plebs velut abrupta a cetero populo,
broken off
,
torn from
, Liv. 3, 19, 9.—II.Trop.: (legio Martia) se prima latrocinio Antonii abrupit,
first freed itself
, Cic. Phil. 14, 12: abrumpere vitam,
to break the thread of life
, Verg. A. 8, 579; 9, 497; so later, abrumpere fata, Sen. Herc. Oet. 893, or, medios annos, Luc. 6, 610: abrumpere vitam a civitate,
to leave it
,
in order to live elsewhere
, Tac. A. 16, 28 fin.: fas,
to destroy
,
violate
, Verg. A. 3, 55: medium sermonem,
to break off
,
interrupt
, id. ib. 4, 388; cf. abruptus: omnibus inter victoriam mortemve abruptis,
since all means of escape
,
except victory or death
,
were taken from us
, Liv. 21, 44, 8.—Hence, ab-ruptus, a, um, P. a., broken off from, separated, esp. of places, inaccessible, or difficult of access.A.Lit., of places, precipitous, steep (syn.: praeceps, abscissus): locus in pedum mille altitudinem abruptus, Liv. 21, 36: (Roma) munita abruptis montibus, Plin. 3, 5, 9, 67; Tac. A. 2, 23: petra undique abscissa et abrupta, Curt. 7, 11.—Also absol.: abruptum, i, n., a steep ascent or descent; cf. praeceps: vastos sorbet in abruptum fluctus,
she swallows down her gulf
, Verg. A. 3, 422.—B.Trop., broken, disconnected, abrupt: Sallustiana brevitas et abruptum sermonis genus, Quint. 4, 2, 45: contumacia,